Probably Anna.Cornelia van Gogh-Carbentus [1817-1907], the artist's mother, Nuenen/Breda. November 1885/April 1886. A Schrauwen [1833-1920], Breda, 1886. J..C.[1877-1961] and J.M. Couvreur, Breda. Willem van Bakel [b. 1866] and Kees Mouwen, Breda, 1902. Consigned 1904 to (Kunsthandel Oldenzeel, Rotterdam). [1] Acquired 1905 by Jan Smit [1837-1918], Kinderdijk, Amblasserdam, Netherlands; (his sale, A. Mak, Amsterdam, 10 February 1919, no. 31); John Enthoven [1885-1957].[2] (W. Brinkman, Schipluiden, Netherlands) in 1954.[3] (Frank Perls Gallery, Westbury, Long Island); on joint account 1954 with (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[4] sold January 1955 to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA;[5] gift 1983 to NGA. [1] It seems likely that The Flower Beds in Holland was among the works that the artist abandoned in Nuenen when he made his precipitate departure for Antwerp in late 1885. These works were moved to Breda in 1886, when Van Gogh’s mother and sister Willemina moved to the town, and put in storage with a Breda carpenter, Adrianus Schrauwen. In 1902, although not their legal owner, Schrauwen sold a number of works to the brothers Couvreur, dealers in old furniture in Breda, who swiftly passed them to Kees Mouwen, a military clothing dealer, who seems to have jointly owned them with Willem van Bakel. From that source they were entrusted to the owner of the Oldenzeel gallery, Margareta Wilhelmina Oldenzeel-Schot, who exhibited them in 1904. [2] John James Enthoven was the son of van Gogh collector Lodewijk Cornelis Enthoven [1854-1920], but this painting was actually owned first by Jan Smit, Lodewijk's father-in-law and John's grandfather, from whose sale it was acquired by John Enthoven (annotated copy of sales catalogue in NGA curatorial files). On the Enthovens and van Gogh, see _Lodewijk Cornelis Enthoven, Verzamelaar te Voorburg_, exh. cat., Museum Museum Swaensteyn, Voorburg, 2004, and Jos ten Berge, "The Enthoven mystery," in _The paintings of Vincent van Gogh in the collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum_, Otterlo, 2003: 424-427 (copies NGA curatorial files). [3] According to a 1954 letter from Brinkman to de la Faille, in the documentation files of the van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the painting was with Brinkman at that time. [4] M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stock book no. 10, p. 139, no. A5854; Sales book no. 17, p. 122 (copies in NGA curatorial files). Invoice from Perls to Knoedler, dated 17 January 1955, Frank Perls Gallery Records, Box 3, Archives of American Art (copy in NGA curatorial files). [5] Invoice from Knoedler to Mellon, dated 3 January 1955 and marked paid on 12 January; copy in NGA curatorial files.