Probably donated to the church by Ferdinand van Boisschot, baron of Zaventem, 1621 (?);
temporarily accommodated in the residence of Baron von Boisschot in Brussels during the military campaigns of Louis XIV, around 1672;
on the orders of the French government removed from the church and taken to Paris, August 1794;
exhibited in the Muséum Central in the Louvre, Paris;
repatriated, 1815 and returned to the church, 1816.

Bullart 1682, vol. II, p. 476, as Van Dyck;
Félibien 1666-88, vol. II, pp. 222-3;
Weyerman 1729, vol. I, p. 298;
Van Gool 1751, vol. II, pp. 94-100;
Descamps 1753-4, vol. II, pp. 11-12;
Mensaert 1763, vol. I, pp. 195-6;
La Vie 1769/91, pp. 32-3;
Michel 1771, pp. 186-7;
Smith 1831, no. 34;
Wauters 1855, pp. 159-66;
Galesloot 1861, pp. 151-7;
Galesloot 1863, pp. 36-50;
Galesloot 1866, pp. 244-55;
Guiffrey 1882, pp. 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, no. 203;
Michiels 1882, pp. 33-9;
Piot 1883, pp. 56, no. 233, p. 164, p. 327, no. 136, p. 423, no. 8;
Wytsman 1899, pp. 1-5;
Antwerp 1899, no. 28;
Rooses 1900, pp. 95-7;
Cust 1900, pp. 32-3, 240, no. 39;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 45;
Brussels 1910, no. 93;
Cust 1914, p. 31;
Antwerp 1930, no. 112;
Glück 1931, p. 24;
Van Puyvelde 1940, pp. 37-42;
Van de Put 1941, p. 32;
d’Arschot 1946, pp. 3-10;
Amsterdam/Rotterdam 1946, no. 26;
Antwerp 1949, no. 12;
Brussels, 1954, no. 57;
Van Puyvelde 1958, pp. 183-6;
Vey 1958, pp. 61-77;
Vey 1962, pp. 8-91, 164;
Vlieghe 1972-3, vol. 2, p. 123;
Wescher 1976, pp. 46, 161;
Princeton 1979, pp. 74-5;
Held 1980, pp. 575-6, under no. 418;
Brown 1982, pp. 41, 43;
Martin 1983, pp. 38-9;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 234;
New York/Fort Worth 1991, pp. 74, 77;
Emile-Mâle 1994, pp. 58, 67;
Vlieghe 1999, p. 26;
Antwerp /London 1999, no. 18;
White 1999, p. 634;
Rotterdam 2001, pp. 206, 207
Barnes et al. 2004, pp. 53-6, no. I.38 (N. De Poorter);
Madrid 2012-3, pp. 20, 27, 28, 37, 45, 46, fig. 17, pp. 47, 48, 51, 55, 60, 62, 67, 70, 80, 89, 249, 259, 260, 276, 334;
Davies 2021a, p. 53, p. 62, n. 21;
Davies 2021e, p. 61.

It was not possible to examine the painting off the wall of the Church