Collection of J. De Doncker, Brussels, 1767;
donated to the museum by Edouard Van Parys, Brussels, 1906, as Rubens.

Basan 1767, no. 58, as Rubens;
Smith 1830, II, no. 1003, as Rubens;
Haberditzl 1908, p. 215, as Rubens;
Rooses 1886-92, II, pp. 6-7 , nr. 238, as Rubens;
Brussels Museum 1908, no. 715, as Rubens;
Brussels Museum 1913, no. 715, as Rubens;
Van Dyke 1914, p. 51, as school of Rubens;
Oldenbourg 1921, p. 54, as Rubens;
Brussels Museum 1922, no. 715, as Rubens;
Brussels Museum 1927, p. 126, no. 965, as Abraham Janssen;
Michel 1928a, pp. 138-9, as Pieter van Mol;
Michel 1928b, pp. 169, 171, as Pieter van Mol;
Burchard 1928, pp. 209-13, as Jordaens;
thereafter in the literature as Jordaens;
Van Puyvelde 1932, pp. 60-3;
Zarnowski 1938, p. 165;
Held 1940, pp. 75-6;
Réau 1957-8, II, p. 404;
d’Hulst 1953a pp.11-20;
d’Hulst 1953b, pp. 96, 100, 102;
d’Hulst, 1956, pp. 51-2;
d’Hulst 1982, pp.50,61-2;
Antwerp 1993, pp. 42-5, no. A2, & p. 68, under no. A10 (R.-A. d’Hulst);
Laureyssens 1993, pp. 36-7;
Mallory 1995, pp. 219-220;
Nelson 1998, p.68 under no. 68.

Inv. 3796/P.P.Rubens/Jésus instruisant Nicodème

(in white ink:) Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts /
de Belgique N° d’inventaire 3796