 By the early 19th century the painting apparently had found its way to Austria, where it was depicted in the background of "Portrait of a Cartographer and His Wife" by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller in 1824 (now in Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster).Atlases depicted in this painting contain maps primarily of Vorarlberg and Tirol at the western end of Austria, so perhaps the painting was in that area, according to Wheelock.At the end of the century, the painting (at that time mistakenly attributed to Eglon van der Neer) was part of the collection of Ilya Ostroukhov (and later Dmitry Shchukin) in Moscow, making it the fourth Vermeer owned by Russians at that time.