Jacques Jordaens

Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by December 1919 (as Rubens);

From whom acquired by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 13 July 1923 (as Rubens);

From whom acquired by Franz Koenigs, Haarlem, 9 March 1928 (by whom lent to the Museum Boijmans , Rotterdam, from 1935–40);

Lisser & Rosenkranz Bank, by 1 June 1935 when ownership transferred as collateral for a loan;

With Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 19 April 1940 (on consignment alongside 34 other works from Lisser & Rosenkranz Bank);

Alois Miedl, Amsterdam, by early June 1940 (acquired together with 30 other paintings through the mediation of Jacques Goudstikker Kunsthandel NV after the occupation of The Netherlands on 10 May 1940);

By repute, Hermann Göring, Berlin;

Private collection, Switzerland, 1965;

Dr F. Schöni, Zurich, 1974 (as Rubens);

Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt;

By whom sold (‘From the Collection of Georg Schaefer, Schweinfurt’), London, Christie’s, 7 July 1978, lot 166 (as attributed to Rubens, ‘P.P. Rubens’);

Where acquired by a private collector;

Thence by descent to the present owners.

Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1919, no. 63, reproduced (as Rubens);

The Burlington Magazine, vol. 46, no. 264, March 1925, p. xxxvii, reproduced (as Rubens);

C. Sterling, Rubens et son Temps, exh. cat., Paris 1936, p. 115, under no. 58 (as Rubens, dated circa 1616);

J. Burckhardt, Rubens, Vienna 1937, reproduced pl. 49 (as Rubens);

L. Burchard and W. Burchard (ed.), 'Jordaens Head-Studies wrongly attributed to Rubens', in Bulletin des Musés Royaux des Beaux-Arts, 1960, nos 3–4, pp. 175ff. (as Jordaens);

D.C. Rich, 'Head of a girl – a Study by Jordaens,' in Worcester Art Museum Bulletin and Calendar, 1964, XXIX, no. 7, np (as Jordaens);

L. van Puyvelde in Le Siècle de Rubens, exh. cat., Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Brussels 1965, pp. 197–8, no. 208, reproduced (as Rubens, dated circa 1614–1615);

M. Jaffé, Jordaens, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ottawa 1968, p. 152, under no. 33 (as Jordaens);

E. Haverkamp-Begemann, in European Paintings in the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester 1974, pp. 181–83 (as Jordaens);

E. Larsen, Seventeenth Century Flemish Paintings, Freren 1985, pp. 84, 111, 355, reproduced pl. 12 (as Rubens);

N. van Hout, Rubens: Study Heads and Anatomical Studies, Study Heads, London and Turnhout 2020, vol. I, p. 55 n. 147.

Amsterdam, Maatschappij voor beeldende kunsten, Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 14 December 1919 – 4 January 1920, no. 63 (as Rubens).

London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1925 (as Rubens);

Amsterdam, Goudstikker, Rubenstentoonstelling, 1933, no. 55, reproduced (as Rubens, with incorrect measurements, lent by Frans Koenigs);

Rotterdam, Boijmans Museum, Verzameling F. Koenigs Schilderijen, 1935, no. 39, reproduced (as Rubens);

Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Le Siècle de Rubens, 15 October – 12 December 1965, no. 208, reproduced (as Rubens, dated circa 1614–15).