Watermark: none.
Inscribed at lower left margin, partially trimmed, in black chalk, "Berghem". Inscribed on verso, at upper left corner, in graphite, "Breederoode"; in another hand, in black chalk, at lower center, "Ruins of the Castle of Brederode", and at lower right, "Berghem / Mr ["r" in superscript] Peels is by Hobema".
Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683, Formerly attributed to.
Röver, Valerius, 1686-1739, former owner.
Röver-van der Dussen, Cornelia, 1689-1762, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, J. (Johann), 1722-1785, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Johan, 1756-1821, former owner.
Goll van Franckenstein, Pieter Hendrik, 1787-1832, former owner.
Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, former owner.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, Earl of, 1818-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 140, repr. (as Berchem).
Stampfle, Felice. Rubens and Rembrandt in Their Century : Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from The Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979, no. 103, repr. (as formerly attributed to Berchem; perhaps by Laurens van der Vinne).
Jane Shoaf Turner, with contributions by Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, New York, 2006, cat. no. 320.