? from the painter to the Teding van Berkhout family;{According to a document preserved in the Rijksmuseum, RP-P-OB-77.314, dated 15 March 1851. This is a copy of a document probably written by a former owner of the painting, C.P.L. Hanninschat, 18th century (?), which was published in J. den Tex, _Oldenbarnevelt_, IV, Haarlem 1970, pp. 655-58. It is part of the ‘dossier’ mentioned in the catalogue for the sale, Baroness Taets van Amerongen van Natewisch, née Hodshon, et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 1 November 1892, p. 9.} from whom to Jacob van Foreest (1640-1708), Hoorn, 1704;{See the previous note.} his descendants;{See the first note in this section.}…; sale, Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 20 May 1799 _sqq._, no. 173 (‘Een ryke Ordonantie vol gewoel zinspeelende op de vier en twintig Rechters van J. van Oldenbarneveld, tegens de muur hangt een papier waarop Frucidata [sic] Innocentia […] op doek […] hoog 24 breed 33 duim [61.7 x 84.8 cm]. NB Den Koper zal eene nadere sleutel van deeze Ordonantie ter hand gesteld worden, benevens een op zilver geschilderd pourtrait van J. van Oldenbarneveld, ’t geen op de zittende man in ’t stuk past.’), fl. 231, to J. Spaan;{Copy RKD.}…; ? sale, Willem Frederick Taelman Kip et al.,{According to GPI, N-3, the seller was Roelof Meurs Pruyssenaar.} Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 16 March 1801, no. 4 (‘een uitmuntend Stuk, zynde volgens de daar by zynde sleutel, een der twee Origineele stukken van de Historie van Johan van Oldenbarneveld, zittende voor zyn 24 gediligeerde Rechters, meesterlyk geschilderd, door C. Saftleven, benevens het Prentje van zyn Pourtret’), fl. 68-10, to Jan Yver;{Copy RKD.}…; Jonkheer Willem Pieter Adriaan Teding van Berkhout (1791-1874), Arnhem, 1851;{See the first note in this section.} his son, Jonkheer Rudolph Isaac Teding van Berkhout (1830-1892), Arnhem, 1891;{NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 171, no. 178 (10 December 1891).} sale, Baroness Taets van Amerongen van Natewisch, née Hodshon, et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 1 November 1892, no. 41, fl. 660, to Gijsbert de Clercq;{NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 172, no. 136 (29 October 1892); NHA, ARS, Kop., inv. 289, pp. 338-39, no. 771 (9 December 1891), inv. 290, p. 35, no. 899 (26 October 1892).} by whom donated to the museum, with SK-A-1589, November 1892{NHA, ARS, IS, inv. 172, no. 155 (17 November 1892); NHA, ARS, Kop., inv. 290, p. 39, no. 909 (19 November 1892), pp. 39-40, no. 910 (19 November 1892).}
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