The twelve works in the ‘Böhler series’ are probably identical to a series, which was in Genoa in the eighteenth century; the Palazzo of Giambattista Serra, Genoa; seen there by Ratti in 1766 (Ratti, 1766, vol. I, p. 230) and in 1780 (‘Dodici mezze figure in tavola d’Appostoli, opera bellissime d’Antonio Vandik’; Ratti 1780, p. 152); Princess Cellamare, Naples, 1914; bought from her collection by the art dealer Julius Böhler, Munich, 1914 (Barnes et al. 2004, p. 71)

Bernhard von Back, Szegedin;
given on loan by him to the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1928;
Karl Haberstock, Berlin;
Fritz Beindorff, Hannover, 1936;
acquired in 1936 by the Collection Pelikanwerke (Pelikan Kunstsammlung), Hannover;
given on loan to the Niedersächsiches Landesmuseum, Hannover;
acquired by the Museum in 1983.

On the ‘Böhler series’:

Cust 1900, p. 233 under no. 9 (as a set seen by Ratti in Genoa);
Oldenbourg 1914-5, pp. 225, 227-8, 230-231;
Bode 1923, p. 338;
Rosenbaum 1928a, pp. 37-44;
Glück 1931, pp. 37-43;
Glück 1933, pp. 290 ff;
Ottawa 1980a, pp. 38-49;
Roland 1983, pp. 23-36:
Roland 1984, pp. 211-23;
Lammertse 2002, pp. 145-6;
Merle du Bourg/Besta 2021, pp. 84-91.

On the painting:

Rosenbaum 1928a, p. 37;
Glück 1931, p. 39-right;
Essen 1953, no. 1a;
Hannover 1954, p. 59, no. 91;
Hannover 1963, no. 11;
Ottawa 1980a, p. 41, 277;
Hannover 1980, p. 51;
Urbach 1983, p. 19;
Roland 1983, p. 25, 33;
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, La Chronique des Arts, March 1984, p. 13, no. 81;
Grohn 1984, p. 705;
Hannover, 1985, no. 12;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 188;
Hannover 1993, no. 3;
Hannover 2000, no. 50;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 73, no. I.59 (N. De Poorter);
Madrid 2012-3, pp. 44, 45, 196, 200, no. 43, 204, 210;
Davies 2021a, p. 53, p. 62, n. 22;
Davies 2022c, pp. 72-89.