**For both the present painting (SK-A-2074) and its possible pendant (SK-A-910)**
…; ? documented at Kasteel Popkensburg in an 18th-century manuscript;{RAU, PA 26, Des Tombe archive, inv. no. 18, ‘Genealogieën, genealogische en heraldische aantekeningen betreffende de familie van Citters en aanverwante families, (17e-19e eeuw): Boudaen (Courten), Walleran Sandra, Fourmenois, Buteux, Hoeufft’, no. 4: ‘Pieter Courten getrouwt met Hor: tot Prado Wed: Jan Fourmenois ons grootmoeder hij boude het groote huijs. Joh. Boudaen 1629’.} ? by descent through the families Boudaen Courten; Van Citters; Verheije van Citters to Jonkheer Jacob de Witte van Citters (1817-76), The Hague; by whom bequeathed to the museum, but given in usufruct to his sister Carolina Hester de Witte van Citters (1820-1901), The Hague, 1876;{RAU, PA 26, Des Tombe archive, inv. no. 1038, ‘Testament van Jacob de Witte van Citters’, 16 June 1875.} her husband Arnoldus Andries des Tombe (1818-1902); transferred to the museum, as attributed to Salomon Mesdach, 1903