The painter Govert Flink, d. 1660, Amsterdam;
by descent to his son Nicolaes Anthoni Flinck, d. 1723, Rotterdam, and finally to the latter’s last surviving daughter, d. 1754;
her sale, Rotterdam, 4 November 1754 (19);
bought by Gerard Hoet (The Hague), who sold it in 1755 to Landgrave Wilhelm VIII of Hesse, Kassel (ruled 1730-60);
Dresden Gallery, inv. of 1749 et seq. No. 840.

Hoet 1752, vol. 3, p. 102, no. 19, as Van Dyck;
Causid 1783, p. 123, no. 116, as Rubens;
Rooses 1886-92, vol. 4, p. 324, as Van Dyck;
Cust 1900, pp. 15, 237, no. 68;
Bode 1906, p. 267;
Rosenbaum 1928a, p. 29;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 135-right (in oval frame);
Glück 1931, p. 89 (in octagonal frame);
Larsen 1988, II, no. 32;
Schnackenburg 1989, pp. 34-5, no. 53;
Kassel 1996, p. 100, no GK.120
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 134, no. I.155 (N. De Poorter) with the location listed as the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Dresden;
Davies 2021a, p. 53, p. 62, n. 24;
Davies 2021e, p. 63.

Guilliam Aertssen