The twelve works of the ‘Böhler series’ are probably identical to a series, which was in Genoa in the eighteenth century;
the Palazzo of Giambattista Serra, Genoa; seen there by Ratti in 1766 (Ratti, 1766, vol. I, p. 230) and in 1780 (‘Dodici mezze figure in tavola d’Appostoli, opera bellissime d’Antonio Vandik’; Ratti 1780, p. 152);
Princess Cellamare, Naples, 1914;
bought from her collection by the art dealer Julius Böhler, Munich, 1914;
Bernhard von Back, Szegerdin;
given on loan by him to the Budapest Museum, 1928;
permanent loan from the Museum from the Hungarian National Bank, since 1930.

On the ‘Böhler series’:

Cust 1900, p. 233 under no. 9 (as a set seen by Ratti in Genoa);
Oldenbourg 1914-5, pp. 225, 227-8, 230-231;
Bode 1923, p. 338;
Rosenbaum 1928a, pp. 37-44;
Glück 1931, pp. 37-43;
Glück 1933, pp. 290 ff;
Ottawa 1980a, pp. 38-49;
Roland 1983, pp. 23-36:
Roland 1984, pp. 211-23;
Lammertse 2002, pp. 145-6;
Merle du Bourg/Besta 2021, pp. 84-91.

On the painting:
Glück 1931, p. 41-left;
Oberschall 1931, p.17;
Glück 1933, p. 290, n. 2;
Hoffmann 1931, p. 438;
Budapest 1967, p. 204, no. 6377;
Budapest 1972, p. 150;
UNESCO 1974, p. 82;
Ottawa 1980a, no. 10;
Urbach 1983, pp. 11, 12;
Roland 1983, pp. 25, 32;
Budapest 1985, pp. 64, 164, no. 54;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 156;
Budapest 2000, p. 53;
Galen 2003, pp. 160-2;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 72, no. I.55 (N. De Poorter);
Mettingen 2010-11, pp. 242-5, no. 110 (A. Gosztola);
Madrid 2012-3, pp. 57, 200, no. 40, 202, 206;
Budapest 2019-20, pp. 228-9, no. 53 (A. Gosztola);
Davies 2021a, p. 53, p. 62, n. 22;
Davies 2022c, pp. 72-89.

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