Acquired by Archduke Charles of Austria (1685-1740);
exhibited in the Stallburg Palace in Vienna from 1730;
subsequently integrated into the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Storffer 1720-33, II, no. 142, as Rubens;
Prenner 1728-33, III, repr.;
Stampart and Prenner 1735, pl. 24;
Mechel 1783, p. 112, no. 5;
Smith 1830, p. 88, no. 285, as Rubens;
Engerth 1884, II, p. 407, no. 1191, as Rubens;
Rooses 1886-92, II, p. 216, no. 388;
Rosenberg 1905, p. 401, as Rubens, ‘St Andreas’;
Knackfuss 1907, p. 82, as Rubens;
Dillon 1909, p. 209, no. 41, as Rubens, ‘St Andrew’;
Glück 1910, p. 291, as Rubens;
Oldenbourg 1921, p. 435, as after Rubens;
Glück 1933, pp. 166, 170;
Vienna Cat. 1938, p. 52, no. 876, as Van Dyck;
Kunsthistorisches Museum 1973, p. 59;
Rowlands 1977, p. 119, under no. 160;
Held 1980, p. 598;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 278,;
Kunsthistorisches Museum 1991, p. 52;
Judson 2000, p. 140, under no. 37, copy 19, as possibly by Van Dyck;
Van Hout 2011, p. 12, as Van Dyck;
Gritsay 2013, pp. 34-5;
Vienna Cat. 2014, p. 297;
Devisscher and Vlieghe 2014, I, p. 232, under no. 47;
Van Hout 2021, I, 56, 58, 219, 231-3, 236; II, fig. 336, as attributed to Van Dyck.

Museum label

Small pieces of wood have been added later to the original plank (49.8 x 46.6 cm) to change the shape of the painting and to give the panel its current size. A dendrochronological examination was impossible.