Correspondence from Armin Kunz on behalf of C.G. Boerner, April 24 2012:
There is no apparent provenance. An old pencil inscription on the verso reads Ottley 722-75 which might refer to William Young Ottley, and English art historian and collector whose print collection was sold at Sotheby's London, May 17 to June 1, 1837. However, the inscription does not relate to any of Ottley's marks as recorded by Lugt (cf. nos. 2642 and 266-2665).
AK via email correspondence, January 8, 2012:
"Unfortunately, I do not know much about the recent history. The owner is fairly wealthy and must have bought the print during the last 10 years privately from a dealer - I think it was from Alan Stone. He is collecting in a variety of areas and decided to sell again. (A bit like Walt Zifkin who bought some Rembrandts and now has sold most of them again). It was then that I consigned the print from him. The fact that the print does not have a fancy "old" provenance such as Mariette etc. is somewhat unfortunate too, but sometimes there is just no stamp and one can't go further back.
