Signed, lower left: J Steen (the J and S form a monogram)

Inscribed, upper center, on chandelier: Prov cap 20 ver i

September 8, 1773, sold by (de Winter . . . Yver, Amsterdam, Netherlands) lot 7

1773, purchased by van der Schley [for fl. 335]

May 10, 1781, sold by (Fullings, The Hague, Netherlands) auction B. Kley, lot 11

1781, purchased by van der Schley [for fl. 255]

December 3, 1781, sold by (van der Schley, Amsterdam, Netherlands) auction Jacob van de Velden, lot 65

1781-1808, purchased by G. van der Pot

June 6, 1808, sold by (van Nymegen . . .van Rijp, Rotterdam, Netherlands) auction G. van der Pot, lot 118

1808, purchased by Louis Bernard Coclers [for fl. 500]

August 7, 1811, sold by (van der Schley . . . de Vries, Amsterdam, Netherlands) auction L.B. Coclers, lot 70

1811, purchased by de Vries [for fl. 365]

April 8 and following days, 1816, sold by (van der Schley . . . de Vries, Amsterdam, Netherlands) lot 103

1816, purchased by Hulswit [for fl. 371]

Marquis de Montcalm (Montpellier)

May 4-5, 1849, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 109

purchased by Norton [for pounds sterling 40-19-00]

1879, Major Corbett-Winder (London, England)

Collection Corbett-Winder (Vaynor Park, Berriew, Wales)

April 6, 1889, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction Major Corbett-Winder, lot 66

James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Jan Havicksz Steen, Gamblers Quarreling, ca. 1665, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.46.