Monogrammist MHVH

Possibly Abbé Brasseur;

Possibly whom sold, Brussels, Mastraeten, 29 March 1825, lot 51 (as Gillis Mostaert, where acquired by "Spruyt");

Art market, England, 1935;

With Samuel Hartveld, London, 1938;

From whom acquired by Louis Jacobs van Merlen (1882-1963), Antwerp;

Thence by descent, until 2013;

With Johnny van Haeften, London;

From whom acquired by the present collector, April 2013.

Anvers, ville de Plantin et de Rubens, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1954, p. 24, cat. no. 1 (as Anonymous Master);

Antwerpens Gouden Eeuw: Kunst en Kultuur ten Tijde van Plantin, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp 1955, p. 7, cat. no. 437 (as Anonymous);

Gloires des Communes Belges, exhibition catalogue, Brussels 1960, p. 108, cat. no. 211 (as Flemish School, 16th Century);

Willem van Oranje: Om vrijheid van geweten, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1984, pp. 78-79, cat. no. C52, reproduced;

R. Strong, Art and Power: Renaissance Festivals, 1450-1650, Berkeley 1986, reproduced on the cover;

W.H. Vroom, "Monogrammist M.H.V.H., De Blijde Inkomste van Anjou te Antwerpen, 1582", in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 37, no. 3 (1989) pp. 188-189, reproduced fig. 16b;

Armada, 1588-1988, exhibition catalogue, London 1988, p. 116, cat. no. 6.11, reproduced (as Netherlandish School, 16th century);

W.H. Vroom, in Antwerp, Story of a Metropolis (16th-17th Century), exhibition catalogue, Antwerp 1993, p. 267, cat. no. 119, reproduced;

G. von Büren, in Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden,  H. Borggrefe, T. Fusenig and B. Uppenkamp (eds.), exhibition catalogue, Ghent and Amsterdam 2002, p. 303, cat. no. 142, reproduced;

E.J. Peters, "Printing Ritual: The Performance of Community in Christopher Plantin's La Joyeuse & Magnifique Entrée de Monseigneur Francoys...d'Anjou," in Renaissance Quarterly 61, no. 2 (Summer 2008), p. 398 note 45.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Galerie Mazarine, Anvers, ville de Plantin et de Rubens, March - April 1954, no. 1;

Antwerp, Stedelijke Feestzaal, Antwerpens Gouden Eeuw: Kunst en Kultuur ten Tijde van Plantin, 13 August - 2 October 1955, no. 437;

Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, Gloires des Communes Belges, 15 October - 15 December 1960, no. 211;

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Willem van Oranje: Om vrijheid van geweten, 28 September - 9 December 1984, no. C52;

London, National Maritime Museum; Belfast, Ulster Museum, Armada, 1588-1988, 20 April 1988 - 8 January 1989, no. 6.11; 

Antwerp, Hessenhuis, Antwerpen, verhaal van een metropool, 16de-17de eeuw, 25 June - 10 October 1993, no. 119;

Lemgo, Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloss Brake; Antwerp, Museum vor Schone Kunsten, Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance Renaissance im Norden, 26 May 2002 - 8 December 2002, no. 142.