The twelve works in 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;
sold by Böhler to Hans Wendland, Berlin, 1915;
Kurt Meissner, Zürich, 1957;
with Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1959;
Oskar Strakosch, Vienna;
bequeathed to the museum, 1976.

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:

Rosenbaum 1928a, p. 36;
Glück 1931, p. 38-right;
Gemälde alter Meister, Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1959-60, no. 8;
Die Weltkunst, 1959, no. 24, p. 3;
The Burlington Magazine, vol. 101, 1959, p. xxiii;
Ottawa 1980a, no. 6;
Urbach 1983, p. 15;
Kunsthistorisches Museum 1987, pp. 180, 235, no. 75;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 200;
Kunsthistorisches Museum 1991, p. 52;
Paris 1991, pp. 44-5;
Barnes et al., p. 74, no. I.61 (N. De Poorter);
Madrid 2012-3, pp. 192, 200, no. 45, 205, 208, 210, 211;
Munich 2019-20, pp. 134, 136, 139 n.36, 388, kat. 2.2;
Davies 2021a, p. 53, p. 62, n. 22;
Davies 2022c, pp. 72-89.