Commissioned by Floris I van Pallandt, Count of Culemborg, 1590;{Mei jet Broers, ‘‘A Culemborg Genealogy for Floris I and II of Pallandt’’, in The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 65 (2017), pp. 276-299} by descent to his son Floris II van Pallandt, 1598;{idem} archives of the Count of Culemborg, Culemborg Castle, de Witte Toren, from ca 1640;{Gelders Archief, Archief Culemborg inv 7703, f 251v} ;…; collection B.T. Nedermeijer Bosch, Culemborg, ca 1812(?); his sale, Culemborg (Boekhandel Van den Abeelen) 19 September 1848, no. 259;{Copy KB} possibly Mr Borger;{File RMA, undated note on cutting from auction catalogue} ;…; collection Friedrich Spitzer (1814-1890), Paris;{Henry d’Allemagne e.a., La collection Spitzer: antiquité, moyen-âge, renaissance, Paris 1890-1892, tôme V, pp. 144/145} his sale, Paris (E. Ménard & Cie.) 1 June 1893, no. 3034, frs. 3000;{Copy RMA} collection Simon Goldschmidt, Parijs;{Paola Cordera, La Fabbrica del Rinascimento. Frédéric Spitzer mercante d’arte e collezionista nell’Europa delle nuove Nazioni, Bologna 2014), p. 349, nr 1893/3034.} ;…; Gebroeders Hamburger NV, Amsterdam;{File RMA, letter A.W.M. Mensing to W.A. Beelaerts van Blokland, 17 July 1925} collection Julius Boas Berg, Amsterdam, ca. 1895;{idem} an anonymous Dutch ‘‘liefhebber’’(aficionado), …;{idem} unknown sale, Amsterdam (Frederik Muller);{File RMA, letter of J. Masson to W.A. Beelaerts van Blokland, 4 November 1924} collection Jean Masson, Amiens and Paris, before 1907;{Bruges 1907, Het gulden vlies/La toison d’or, Bruges, cat. no. II-55.} acquired for fl.4.300 by W.A. Beelaerts van Blokland (1883-1935), The Hague, through the meditation of boekhandel Martinus Nijhoff, 1st of August 1924;{File RMA} from his heirs to the museum, 2011
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