…; ? Don Francisco Lopez de Liz (?-?), The Hague, by 1742;{Possibly the object described as ‘A marble bust on red marble base of don Louis da Cunha, ambassador of Portugal’ (_Een marmeren borstbeeld op rood marmeren voet van don Louis da Cunha, gezant van Portugal_) listed in the inventory of his goods and effects compiled in November/December 1742; see E. van Biema, ‘Episoden uit het leven van Francesco Lopez de Liz, naar bescheiden uit de archieven’, _Die Haghe Jaarboek_ 1914-1915, pp. 166-225, esp. p. 214.} …; ? the sitter, Don Luis da Cunha (1662-1749), Paris and Lisbon, after 1742; by inheritance to Countess Da Cunha, Lisbon, by 1882;{Cf. _Catalogo illustrado da Exposição retrospectiva de arte ornamental portugueza e hespanhola celebrada em Lisboa em 1882_, exh. cat. Lisbon (Palácio Alvor-Pombal) 1882, sala P, no. 60. Here the claim is made that the bust was donated to the sitter by the Académie de France, but no evidence exists to support this.} …; Don Caetano Alberto de Jesus Maria José de Lourdes das Vitórias de La Salette de Helf Sinfrónio Olímpio Teodato Luís Gonzaga Estanislau Kostka Pedro Francisco Xavier Henriques Pereira Faria Saldanha de Lancastre (1877-1960), 4th Count of Das Alcáçovas, Count of Cuba and Duke of Aveiro, Lisbon, by 1938; {In a letter dated 21 June 1938, the bust was brought to the attention of the director of the Rijksmuseum by its then owner (Object File, RMA).} sale, his heirs, Lisbon (Leiria & Nascimento, Lda), 18 March 1993, no. 200 (unsold); sold as ‘after sale’ to the dealer Alain Moatti, Paris, 1994; from whom, FF 1,800,000 (c. fl. 600,000), to the museum, 1994
