November 1816, sold by (Regnault Delalande C.P.: Le Normont, Paris, France)

(John Smith, London, England)

? Sir George Warrender, bart. (United Kingdom)

Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (Novar)

June 1, 1878, cosigned to (Christie's, London, England)

purchased by (Goupil & Company, London, England)

? James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. William E. Scripps (Detroit/Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)

2001-present, found in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Probably to be identified with J. Smith. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters. vol. 4, London, 1833, pp. 42-43, no. 129 [with description in reverse; cited in the collection of Sir George Warrender, bt.]. Westrheene, W. Jan Steen: Etudes sur l'Art en Hollande. The Hague, 1856, W 116. Probably to be identified with C. Hofstede de Groot. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 1, London, 1908, p. 183, no. 696 [with description in reverse; cited as in the collection of Sir George Warrender, 1833, Sm.]. Hofstede de Groot, C., Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. 1, Esslingen/Paris, 1907, no. 614e; p. 171, no. 696 [annotation in RKD copy owned by HdG indicates as part of the early provenance London, John Smith; Novar, Collection J. H. Munro]. Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts, London, 2004, pp. 224-225 (entry by S. Donahue Kuretsky)

Jan Havicksz Steen, A Party of Peasants, between 1648 and 1650, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps, 1954, 2001.34.