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    • James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
    • Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
    • Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
      • Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
      • Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
      • University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
      • Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
    • Nature and Imagination: Dutch Art of the 17th Century
      • University of New Hampshire. ( 10/27/1982 - 12/8/1982)
    • Teachers of Rembrandt
      • E. B. Crocker Art Gallery. ( 12/7/1974 - 1/26/1975)
    • Prints/Drawings & Drawings/Prints, 1500-1800
      • Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 8/4/2009 - 9/20/2009) 
    Type: catalogue
Author: Henry Johnson
Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 131
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Section Title: Pt. I, The Bowdoin Drawings
Date: 1885

Type: catalogue
Author: Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Document Title: Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Bulding
Edition: 4th
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 131
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . .
Date: 1930

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: David P. Becker
Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: p. 207
Reference: no. 111 (illus.)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Date: 1985

    Attribution first made by Witt, affirmed by Lugt and other scholars. The story of the subject is related in the Book of Tobit from the Apocrypha, 6:1-6.

    Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).