? Commissioned by or for the sitter; ? by descent to his great-granddaughter, Elisabeth Louisa Pieck, née Van Aerssen (1714-after 1750), Brakel Manor, near Zaltbommel; ? her son, Anne Frans Willem Pieck (1736-c. 1780), with Brakel Manor; ? by whom sold to Wilhelmus Wilhelmus (1720-1771), with Brakel Manor, 1768; ? his niece, Maria Aletta van Dam, née Van Wageningen (1759-1828), with Brakel Manor, 1781; ? her son, Wilhelmus van Dam (1779-1858), with Brakel Manor, 1828, or bought by him; ? transferred to Huis Het Spijker, Brakel; ? his wife, née Ditmars van IJsselvere; transferred to The Hague, 1858; sale, C. Schiffer van Bleiswijk et al. [section dowager of W. van Dam van Brakel], The Hague (C. van Doorn), 14 December 1874 _sqq._, no. 79 (‘Cornelis van Aerssen, Heer van Sommelsdijk; beschr. in de ridderschap van Holland en West-Friesland, Gouverneur van Nijmegen, Kolonel bij de cavalerie. Overl. 1662.’), probably bought in; on loan from the dowager of Wilhelmus van Dam van Brakel to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1886-95;{A. Bredius and C. Hofstede de Groot, _Musée Royal de La Haye (Mauritshuis): Catalogue raisonné des tableaux et des sculptures_, coll. cat. The Hague 1895, p. 143, no. 588; _Verslagen omtrent ’s Rijks verzamelingen van geschiedenis en kunst_ 1895 (annual report of the Rijksmuseum), p. 66.} her sale et al., Amsterdam (Lokaal De Zon), 29 October 1895;{Note RMA; the sale catalogue has not been located.}…; from the dealer M.J. van Gelder, Amsterdam, fl. 272.30, to the museum, with two other paintings,{For these two pictures, SK-A-1671 and SK-A-1672, see Entry.} through the mediation of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 12 December 1895{NHA, ARM, Kop., inv. 290, pp. 165-66, no. 1335 (27 November 1895), p. 168, no. 1341 (12 December 1895).}
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