**For both the present painting (SK-A-3517) and its pendant (SK-A-3516)** ? Commissioned by or for the sitters; ? probate inventory, their son, Joannes Lutma (1624-1689), Amsterdam, 30 November 1689, in the vestibule (`twee conterfyetsels van des overledens vader en moeder´);{SA, NA 4567, notary J. Backer, p. 237; published in A. Bredius, `De nalatenschap van Joannes Lutma (den Jongen)´, _Oud-Holland_ 30 (1912), pp. 219-22, esp. p. 221.}…; ? collection Abraham Calraet, Dordrecht, 1729;{K. Bauch, _Jacob Adriaensz Backer, ein Rembrandtschüler aus Friesland_, Berlin 1926, p. 90.} or, probate inventory, Elisabeth Franken, widow of Mattheus van den Brouck(e), Dordrecht, 3 November 1729 (`2 ovale pourtretten van Bakker´);{Bredius notes, RKD.}…; sale, Pieter de la Court van der Voort (1722-1775, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (P. Slagregen and P. Yver), 26 August 1772, no. 173 (`Twee stuks, verbeeldende de vermaarde Zilverdryver, van Vianen, en deszelfs Huisvrouw, in Ovaalen, op Paneel geschilderd, door A.B. ieder is hoog 36, breed 29 duim [92.5 x 74.5 cm].´), fl. 34,{Copy FLNY.} to the dealer Jan Yver, for Johan van der Marck Aegidiusz (c. 1694-1770), Leiden;{Copy BNP. According to Van der Marck´s notes in his copy of the sale catalogue the portraits were executed by `Adriaan Backer´. See also K. Bauch, _Jacob Adriaensz Backer, ein Rembrandtschüler aus Friesland_, Berlin 1926, p. 90, no. 151.} his sale, Amsterdam (H. de Winter and J. Yver), 25 August 1773, nos. 470, 471, as Adriaen Backer (`Vianen (A. van) Konstig Zilver Dryver. 470 Dezen kunstenaar is verbeeld met een Hamer in zyn linkerhand, en by zich een zilver gedreeven Schaal, in ovaal formaat, door Adriaan Bakker. […] op Paneel, ovaal format, h. 35½ b 28 duim [91.2 x 72 cm]. 471 De huisvrouw van den voorgenoemden. […] een wedergade van het voorgaande)´, fl. 30, to J. Yver;{Copy RMA.}…; collection Stanisław II August Poniatowski (1732-1798), King of Poland, Royal Castle, Warsaw, 1795, as Flemish School (`Portrait oval a mi corps d´un orfevre vetu de noir, tenant un marteau dans la main gauche 37 x 27 [91.8 x 67 cm], 60 [ducats]´ and `Portrait d´une vielle femme à mis corps vetu de noir un mouchoir blanc sur la gorge et les mains croisées sur la poitrine´, 37 x 27 [91.8 x 67 cm], 50 [ducats]´);{_Catalogue des tableaux du Roi_ (1795), nos. 213-14; transcribed in T. Mańkowski et al., _Galeria Stanisława Augusta_, I, Lwów 1932, p. 234.} his son, Prince Joseph Poniatowski (1763-1813), Warsaw;{T. Mańkowski et al., _Galeria Stanisława Augusta_, I, Lwów 1932, p. 498.} transferred from the Royal Castle, Warsaw, to the Court Library, Vienna, 6 April 1810;{T. Mańkowski et al., _Galeria Stanisława Augusta_, I, Lwów 1932, p. 235.} from Prince Joseph Poniatowski, 86 ducats, to Count Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński (1748-1829), Vienna, 18 June 1810;{T. Mańkowski et al., _Galeria Stanisława Augusta_, I, Lwów 1932, p. 235.}…; collection Count André Mniszech (1823-1905), Paris, 1895;{C. Hofstede de Groot, `Johannes Lutma van Groningen´, _Groningsche volksalmanak_ 59 (1895), pp. 100-09, esp. p. 101. The paintings are not mentioned in the catalogue for the sale, Countess André Mniszech, Paris (H. Baudoin, Hôtel Drouot), 10 May 1910.}…; sale, August de Ridder (1837-1911, Villa Schönberg, Kronberg im Taunus), Paris (Galerie Georges Petit), 2 June 1924, no. 1, fr. 82,000, no. 2, fr. 35,000;{Copy RMA.}…; collection Antonius Wilhelmus Mari Mensing (1866-1936), Amsterdam;{_Verslagen omtrent ´s Rijks verzamelingen van geschiedenis en kunst_ 1929 (annual report of the Rijksmuseum), p. 13.} from whom on loan to the museum, April 1925-April 1929 (inv. nos. SK-C-1159, SK-C-1160); ? from whom to a private collection, USA;{RMA Archive, folder P. Cassirer, letter from the museum to the Ministry of Education, Arts and Sciences, 24 November 1947.}…; collection Hans Ludwig Larsen (1892-1937, Wassenaar), 1936;{_Oude kunst uit Haagsch bezit_, exh. cat. The Hague (Gemeentemuseum) 1936-37, no. 28.} his sale, New York (Parke-Bennet Galleries), 6 November 1947, no. 34, $2,500, no. 35, $1,000, to the museum
