A vanitas still-life with a baby on a red velvet cushion resting on a skull-like bolster, by an hourglass

H. G. Sperling;

With P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London (as by Guido Cagnacci [i] ), acquired from the above 9 May 1961, and by whom sold 26 March 1962, to

G. Blair Laing Ltd., Toronto;
Mr. John A MacAuley, Q.C., Winnipeg (by whom acquired from the above circa 1960);

Private collection, England.

Footnotes

[i] According to the records in the Colnaghi archives, the attribution to Cagnacci was ‘due to Voss’, presumably Hermann Voss.