In the context of this artwork, explore the Sales of the Provenance.
The first sale of the painting occurred in August 1820, where, from the ownership of C.S Roos, through the art dealer R.W.P de Vries, the painting was purchased by Isaac Van Eyck for either 600 or 750 florins. The next sale is listed as ownership transferring to a Mr. Mason after a sale in Paris. Following this, the painting belonged to various members of the Rothschild banking family, starting with Baron Lionel de Rothschild who acquired the painting after an 1842 or earlier sale. Through inheritance, the piece passed to his son, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st baron Rothschild, who through exchange or sale passed ownership to his brother, baron Alfred Charles de Rothschild, for Halton House, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire. Upon Alfred de Rothchild's death in 1918, the painting was bequeathed to his illegitimate daughter, Almina Victoria, Countess of Carnarvon, who sold the piece to Duveen Brothers, Inc., in 1924 who flipped the painting in November of that year to Andrew W. Mellon, a prominent politician and later philanthropist. In December 1934 'A Dutch Courtyard'  was deeded to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, who gifted the painting to the National Gallery of Art in 1937.
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