Given by Jan van den Broeck to the church (then called ‘Predikherenkerk’ or the Dominican Church), as part of a cycle of The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary;
replaced by a copy and transferred to the altar of the Holy Cross to the right of the entrance to the choir in the same church, before 1687;
it remained there until the 1770s;
removed from the church on the order of the French authorities and taken to Paris, August 1794;
exhibited in the Musée Central in the Louvre, Paris;
part of the shipment of paintings recovered from France that arrived in Antwerp, 5 December 1815;
briefly in the ‘Museum’, the former Franciscan monastery, 1816;
back in the church, June 1816.

Bellori 1672, p. 254;
Jacobus de Wit 1748, pp. 55-7;
Mensaert 1763, I, pp. 202-3;
Descamps 1769, p. 191;
La Vie 1769/91, p. 48;
Berbie 1774, p. 75;
Reynolds 1781 (Mount 1996), p. 53;
Paris 1799, no. 251;
Antwerp 1816, no. 24;
Smith 1831, no. 408;
Mariette, II, p. 181;
Guiffrey 1882, pp. 15-19, 247, no. 101A;
Piot 1883, p. 22, no. 40, p. 299, no. 3, p. 301, no. 6, p. 316, no. 40, p. 382, no. 19, p. 395, no. 24; p. 400, no. 23;
Antwerp 1899, no. 11;
Cust 1900, pp. 11, 233, no. 5;
Antwerp 1906, pp. 10, 11;
Bode 1906, p. 261;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 17;
Sirén 1914, p. 83;
Glück 1931, p. 11;
Knipping 1939, I, p. 280, vol. 2, p. 52;
Antwerp 1949, no. 1;
Antwerp 1956, no. 556;
Vey 1958, pp. 11-35;
Van Gelder 1961, pp. 3, 9, 17;
Vey 1962, pp. 4, 59, 79-87, 148-9;
Van den Nieuwenhuizen 1862, pp. 79, 82;
Vlieghe, 1971, p. 281;
Wescher 1976, pp. 44, 160;
Princeton 1979, p. 38 ff;
Brown 1982, p. 40;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 269;
New York/Fort Worth 1991, p. 48;
Sirjacobs and Coolens 1993, pp. 38-9;
Emile-Mâle 1994, pp. 99, 105-6;
Antwerp/London 1999, no. 7 (not exhibited in Antwerp);
Vlieghe 1999, p. 22;
Antwerp 1999, pp. 63-6;
Laine and Magnusson 2002, p. 154;
Barnes et al. 2004, pp. 41-2, no. I.25 (N. De Poorter);
Van Hout 2006, pp. 458-61;
Geest and Van Cauteren 2008, pp. 70-71;
Madrid 2012-3, pp. 28, 29, 43, 62, 79, 84, 87, 90, 139, 142, 149-51, no. 21 (J. Preciado);
Van der Stighelen et al. 2014, p. 24;
Davies 2021a, pp. 53, 55, 62, n. 21;
Davies 2021e, p. 61;
Davies 2023a, p. 165.

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