? Commissioned by or for Cornelis Samuelsz van Esch (1594/95-1656) and Josina Jansdr de Carpentier (1601-34), Dordrecht; ? their daughter, Cornelia van Esch (1624-?), Dordrecht; estate inventory, her husband, Dr Johan de Jongh (?-1676), GAD, notary Johannes Melanen, ONA 197, 9 October 1676, dining room (‘Seven achtkantige schilderijkens sijnde de conterfeytsels van d’heer Cornelis van Esch en sijnne huijsvrouw za[lige]r met vijff haerder kinderen.’); ? his daughter, Cunira de Jongh, and her husband, Robert Hartley, Dordrecht;...; bequeathed to the museum by Daniel Franken Dzn (1838-98), Amsterdam and Le Vésinet, 1898{Provenance reconstructed in Loughman 1991, p. 29.}
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