Chevalier J.B. Antoine (d. 1691), Post Master General in Antwerp (his seal previously affixed to the reverse), in whose posthumous inventory it appears as no. 60: ‘Een schetse Kersnacht van van Dyck Fl. 72’ (‘A sketch of the Nativity by Van Dyck, 72 guilders’);
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 28 November 1956 (84), as Fragonard;
with the Hallsborough Gallery, London, 1957;
M. A. Hassid, Geneva;
by descent in a private collection, Switzerland;
sale ‘Property from a Private Swiss Collection’, Sotheby’s, London, 6 December 2012 (335), as follower of Van Dyck;
with Philip Mould Ltd., London;
sale, Christie’s, London, 15 December 2020 (15), as Van Dyck, where purchased by The Phoebus Foundation.

Denucé 1932, p. 356;
‘Fine paintings of Four Centuries at the William Hallsborough Gallery, London’, Connoisseur, May 1957, pp. 248-9;
‘Dutch, Flemish, French and Italian Masters in a London Exhibition’, The Illustrated London News, 27 April 1957, p. 698;
‘Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions’, The Burlington Magazine, May 1957, p. 169.
Antwerp/Rotterdam 1960, p. 165, as a pastiche after Van Dyck;
King’s Lynn 1963, no. 19;
Brussels 1965, no. 50, as Van Dyck;
Duverger, Kunstinventarissen, Vol. XII, p. 91;
Larsen 1988, no. 683, as Van Dyck;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 248, under no. III.2 (H. Vey), without attribution;
Brown 2020, pp. 57-9, as Van Dyck;
Davies 2021a, pp. 50, 57, 63, n. 48, as Van Dyck;
Davies 2021b, p. 83, ill. p. 84, p. 86;
Davies 2021e, p. 61, p. 68, n. 6;
Seim 2022, pp. 31, 34-5, 37-9, 42 n. 13;
Davies 2022b, pp. 45, 49, 53 n. 12.