Attributed to Jan Victors (Amsterdam 1619-1676 East Indies), Jacob blessing the sons of Joseph

Attributed to Jan Victors (Amsterdam 1619-1676 East Indies)
Jacob blessing the sons of Joseph
with inscription 'niet' (?) (lower left, recto), and with inscription in a 17th Century hand ‘a. 4st sweecks cour. 16 st/ noch voor 4 portugesen als per [?] het/ clat boeck elck I en ½ weeck/ 40+20=60/ noch voor 2 portugesen 13 weecken/ 15 15/ 15 15/ Den 26 ordon/ gepasseert/ de vrou ende een portugees is/ tot eumes [?] gebleven door de sieckte vand’ (verso)
pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, fragmentary watermark
4 ½ x 4 ½ in. (11.5 x 11.5 cm)

Provenance

Count Jan Pieter van Suchtelen (1751-1836), Saint Petersburg (L. 2332).
Paul Victor Mathey (1844-1929), Paris.
Marsden Jasael Perry (b. 1850), Providence (L. 1880, verso).
Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner (1880-1958), New York; A.W.M. Mensing, Amsterdam, 25 October 1932, lot 19 (as attributed to Rembrandt).
W.E. Mills, New York.

Property from the Michael Hall Collections