*Esaias BOURSSE (Amsterdam 1631 - at sea 1672) The White Shirt Canvas Signed above the mantelpiece "Eboursse". (Old restorations) 55.5 x 48.5 cm Provenance : - Sale of Mrs. Goddard's collection, London, Christie's, June 3, 1909, no. 76 (DE HOOGHE, 304.10 at Sackville Gallery) ; - Anonymous sale (Goldschmidt of Vienna and others), Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, September 5, 1936, no. 2303 (Boursse E. Not sold); - M. Valentiner saw this painting in 1912, "at a dealer's" (according to C. Brière-Misme, op. supra.); - Katz, Dieren, Gelderland, 1938; - Collection de Vos, Amsterdam, 1943 - Sale Amsterdam, May 27, 1943, no. 3 (according to C. Brière-Misme, op. supra. Could not be verified); - Private collection USA and Switzerland; - Online sale, Sotheby's, May 7, 2020, no. 50 (Esaias Boursse); - Acquired by a private individual at the Sotheby's sale. Bibliography: C. Brière-Misme, Un "Intimiste" hollandais Esaias Boursse, in Oud Holland, vol. 69, no. 4, 1954, quoted p. 79, reproduced fig. 8 p. 80.