Pieter Claeissens the Elder

(as a triptych):

Edouard Lucas-Moreno, Paris (as Antonis Mor);

On commission with Galerie Heinemann, Munich, January 1911 (as Luis de Vargas);

Thereafter returned to Edouard Lucas-Moreno, Paris, February 1911;

Pierre Verrier de Nice and R.-A. de Villepreux;

Their sale, Brussels, Galerie J. Fievez, 8 December 1924, lot 128 (as Antonis Mor).

(central panel):

Alberto J. Pani (1878–1955), Mexico City, by 1940 (inv. no. 15);

His sale, New York, Kende Galleries, 17 December 1942, lot 29 (as Pieter de Kempeneer, called Pedro de Campana);

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie’s East, 5 November 1982, lot 36 (as Peter de Kempeneer);

Where acquired by the present collectors.

(wings):

Frank D. Frazier;

By whose Estate sold ('Property of the Estate of the late Frank D. Frazier'), New York, American Art Association, 4 March 1937, lot 42 (as School of Cologne, 16^th century), to E.A. Block;

With Carl Schneider, Frankfurt;

From whom acquired by P.A. Muller, 1962 (as Joos van Cleve);

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie’s, 23 June 2015, lot 136 (as Attributed to Pieter Pourbus);

Where acquired by the present collectors.

A.L. Mayer, Galerie Heinemann, Altspanische Ausstellung Januar 1911, exh. cat., Munich 1911, pp. 5 and 95, no. 50, reproduced (as Luis de Vargas);

Cicerone, January 1911, reproduced fig. 3 (as Antonio de Alfian);

A.J. Pani, La Segunda Coleccion Pani de Pinturas, Catalogo Descriptivo y Comentado, Mexico 1940, no. 15;

T.H. Borchert, in Forgotten Masters: Pieter Pourbus and Bruges Painting from 1525 to 1625, exh. cat., A. van Oosterwijk (ed.), Bruges 2017, pp. 167–68, no. 17, reproduced.

Balboa Park, San Diego Museum of Art, long-term loan;

Bruges, Groeningemuseum Museum, Forgotten Masters: Pieter Pourbus and Bruges Painting from 1525 to 1625, 13 October 2017 – 21 January 2018, no. 17;

San Diego, Timken Museum of Art, long-term loan.