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Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598-1659 Amsterdam) Christ and the Centurion oil on panel 14 ½ x 20 1/8 in. (36.8 x 51 cm.) Provenance François Mols (d. 1790), Antwerp; Brussels, 16 June 1772, lot 4 (480 kronenthalers). Antoine Poullain, Receveur genéral des Domaines du Roi, Paris; his sale (†), Le Brun, Paris, 15 March 1780, lot 53, where acquired for 2000 livres by Charles-Louis de Beauchamp, comte de Merle (1723-1793); his sale, Paillet, Paris, 1-4 March 1784, lot 80, where unsold and reoffered Anonymous sale [Comte de Merle]; Christie’s, London, 30 April 1785, lot 68 (80 gns. to Capt. Baillie). Jean J. Bertels (d. 1792), London; Christie’s, London, 1 June 1787, lot 65. [A Man of Fashion]; Christie’s, London, 4 February 1792, lot 38 where acquired for 20 gns. by Sir John Boyd 1st Baronet (1718-1800), Danson House, Bexley; his sale (†), Coxe, London, 7 May 1805, lot 44. Philippe Panné (d. by 1819), London; Christie’s, London, 29 March 1819, lot 78, where acquired for 40 gns. by the following with John Smith (1781-1855), London, and by whom sold on 15 February 1820 for £60 to Christian William Huybens, London; his sale, Stanley, London, 26-27 March 1822, lot 116 (34 gns.). Art market, Switzerland, 1955. with Daan Cevat, London, 1965. Private collection, Switzerland, and by descent until Anonymous sale; Koller, Zurich, 26 March 2004, lot 3017. with Rafael Valls, London, by 2005. with Jack Kilgore, New York, where acquired by the present owner in 2011.