...; ? sale, Cornelis Wittert van Valkenburg (1672-1733), Rotterdam (auction house not known), 11 April 1731, no. 48 (‘Adam en Eva uit het Paradys verdreven, [...], h. 12d, Br. 15d [31 x 38.5 cm]’), ? to Hendrik van Heteren (1672-1749), The Hague;{Jonckheere 2005, p. 265, no. 48.} ? his collection;{Moes/Van Biema 1909, p. 192.} ? his son, Adriaan Leonard van Heteren (1724-1800), The Hague (‘Een stuk, verbeeldende Adam en Eva, werdende door den Engel uit het Paradijs gedreven, [...], h. 11 en drie vierde d., br. 14 en een half d. [30.7 x 37.9 cm] P.’);{Coll. cat. Van Heteren 1752, p. 458.} his third cousin and godson, Adriaan Leonard van Heteren Gevers (1794-1866), Rotterdam, ? (‘Adam et Eve chassé du Paradis, bois, h. 11½ l. 14½ [30.1 x 37.9 cm]’), or ? (‘Mème sujet mais d’une ordonnance differente, bois, h. 11¾ l. 14 [30.7 x 36.6 cm]’);{Coll. cat. Gevers 1808, p. 149, no. 79 or no. 80.} from whom, fl. 100,000, with 136 other paintings _en bloc_ (known as the ‘Kabinet van Heteren Gevers’), to the museum, by decree of Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, and through the mediation of his father Dirk Cornelis Gevers (1763-1839), 8 June 1809{Verroen 1985, p. 17, notes 2, 3.}
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