Possibly John Robert Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney (1805-1890), Kent, England, by whom lent to the Royal Academy, London, 1880;
with Messrs. Laurie and Co., London, 1907;
sold by Lawrie, through Blakeslee Galleries, New York, to Robert Dawson Evans (d.1909), Boston, 1909;
by inheritance to Mrs. Robert Dawson Evans (Marie Antoinette Hunt) (1845-1917), Boston, 1917;
bequest by Mrs. Robert Dawson Evans to the museum, 1917, as Rubens.

London 1880, no. 54, as Rubens;
Boston Museum, February 1910, p.5, as Rubens;
Valentiner 1912, pp. 183-184, as Rubens;
Valentiner 1914, p. 179;
Valentiner 1920, pp. 179-80;
Ames 1925, pp.19, 22, 24;
Burroughs 1938, pp. 149-151;
Kieser 1938-39, p. 186, no.7;
Nash 1942, no.4, as Rubens;
Los Angeles 1946, no. 16, as Rubens;
Goris – Held 1947, nr. A.23, as Jordaens;
Constable 1949, pp.127-128, as Rubens;
R.-A. d’Hulst, 1956, p. 82, as Jordaens;
thereafter in the literature as Jordaens;
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in Oil, Tempera and Pastel, Boston Museum,1955, p.35;
Gerson – ter Kuile 1960, p.127;
Jaffé 1965, pp.51, 53;
Ottawa 1968-69, pp. 90, 268 no. 35;
Boston Museum 1971, pp.103, 193, no.103;
d’Hulst 1982, pp. 270-271, 339, note 7;
Jaffé 1984, p.784;
Boston 1984, pp.25, 50;
Boston Museum 1985, p.153;
Sutton 1986, p.42;
de Jongh 1986, pp.126-127;
Laing 1992, pp.220-221, no.68 (M.Vandenven);
Boston 1993, pp.245-46 no. 29 (M. Wieseman);
Unger 1993, p.13;
Boston Museum 1999, p.207.

Small paper label with difficult to read text and numbers