Documented in Salzdahlum since at least 1776;
taken to Paris in 1806;
returned from Paris to Braunschweig in 1815;
in the museum from 1816 onwards.

Brunswick 1776, p. 230, no. 45, as Jordaens;
Paris 1807, no. 447;
Paris 1810, no.57;
Empirius 1836, p. 151, no. 417;
Parthey 1863, p. 642, no. 7;
Rooses 1879, p. 551;
Rooses 1881, p. 360;
Riegl 1882, pp. 100 ff., no. 465;
Flechsig and Meijer 1905, p. 13;
Rooses 1908, pp. 17 ff., 266;
Bredius 1906, p. 33;
Oldenbourg 1918, p. 114;
Burchard 1928, pp. 209-10;
Von Schneider 1933, pp. 99, 136;
Glück 1933, p. 411;
Van Puyvelde 1953, p. 94;
Bode 1956, p. 510 ;
Ottawa 1968-69, pp.18, 39;
Braunschweig 1969, p.80;
Knipping 1970, pp. 15, 40-2;
Knipping 1974, II, p. 429;
Braunschweig 1976, p. 36, no. 116;
Nicolaus 1979, p. 227;
d’Hulst 1982, p. 331 n. 55;
Klessmann et al. 1978, p. 50;
Broos 1987, pp. 228 ff;
Antwerp 1993, p. 42, under no. A2 (R-A. d’Hulst);
Klessmann 2003, pp. 65, no.116, colour fig. p.145, no. 21.

1. Old hand-written label in brown ink
2. Museum label