Karel Dujardin (Amsterdam 1626-1678 Venice), The Annunciation to the Shepherds

Karel Dujardin (Amsterdam 1626-1678 Venice)
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
signed and indistinctly dated 'K· DU· IARDIN· fe / 16[...]' (lower left)
oil on canvas
27 1/8 x 20 ½ in. (68.8 x 52.1 cm.)

Provenance

(Possibly) Baron de Banckheim, Paris; his sale (?), rue de Gaillon, Paris, 12 April 1747, lot 46.
(Possibly) Tableaux des écoles d'Italie, française, flamande et hollondaise, la plus grande partie provenant de l'étranger; Paillet and Boileau, Rue de Bullion, Paris, 29 April 1790, lot 89 (1001 francs).
(Possibly) Anonymous sale; William Ford, Manchester, 1817, lot 11.
(Possibly) Robert Archer (c.1759-1832), Oxford; his sale, High Street, Oxford, 1818, lot 50.
(Possibly) Thomas Turner; his sale, Christie's, London, 19 May 1827, lot 40, (unsold at 42 gns.).
(Possibly) Walker; his sale (?), Christie's, London, 28 March 1835, lot 92 (6 gns. to Edward).
(Possibly) Reverend Joseph Shapland (d. 1837), Tewkesbury Lodge; his sale (?), on the premises, 12 September 1837 (=2nd day), lot 166, (10 gns. to Norton).
General Studd, Oxton, Devon; sold Christie's, London, 25 January 1918, lot 151 (9 gns. to Erickson).
Dr. John E. Stillwell (1853-1930); his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 1 December 1927 (=1st day), lot 212, where catalogued as dated 1670.
Richard Ederheimer (1892-1959), New York.
Private collection, U.S.A., circa 1969-1989.
With Otto Nauman and Johnny van Haeften, New York and London, where catalogued as dated 1661, where acquired by the following,
Ashdown House: The Winter Queen and the Earl of Craven; sold Sotheby's, London, 27 October 2010, lot 95.