The Widow Roose, sale, Antwerp, 8 May 1798 (8), as Rubens;
probably purchased by the family;
by inheritance to the Beauffort family;
purchased by the Museum from the heirs of Amédée de Beaufortt, 1874.

Smith 1830, no. 897, as Rubens;
Rooses 1886-1892, IV, no. 908;
Bode 1889, p. 46, as Van Dyck;
Rosenberg 1906, pp. 150-1, as Rubens;
Glück 1931, pp. xxxiii, 84-5, 528, as Van Dyck;
Amsterdam 1933, no. 51;
Lambotte 1935, pp. 231-2;
Paris 1936, no. 22;
Dimier 1937, pp. 180-1, as Rubens;
Glück 1940, p. 173, n. 3, as Van Dyck;
Evers 1943, p. 356, as Rubens;
Amsterdam/Rotterdam 1946, no. 67;
Brussels 1953, no. 44;
London 1953-4, no. 203;
Genoa 1955, no. 8, as Van Dyck;
Brussels 1961, no. 10;
Van Puyvelde 1955, pp. 44-6, as Rubens;
Koninklijke Musea 1984, p. 254, as Rubens (or Van Dyck);
Larsen 1988, II, no. A5, as Rubens;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 18 (N. De Poorter), as not by Van Dyck;
Brussels 2007, pp. 138, 140-1, no. 34 (N. De Poorter), as Rubens or Van Dyck;
Royal Lazienki 2016, p. 181, as Rubens or Van Dyck;
Seim 2022, pp. 31-2, 36, 42 n.9.

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Museum and exhibition labels

1. The arms of the Roose family
2. Dam. Jacqueline Van Caestre compaigne a Jean Charles de Cordes escuier seigr de Wichelen cescamp GC