Sir Anthony van Dyck

Arnold de Pret Roose de Calesberg, Antwerp, by 1899;

Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson (1840–1929), Dudley House, London, before 1910 and probably before 1904;

His sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 1923, lots 95–96, unsold;

By descent to his daughter, Princess Ida Labia (1879–1961), London, 1928/9–1958;

By descent to her son, Dr Joseph Benjamin Labia (1922–2011), London;

By whom sold (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Sotheby’s, 24 March 1976, lot 99 (a pair), for £38,000;

Private collection, Spain;

Thence by descent.

Exposition Van Dyck à l’occasion du 300e anniversaire de la naissance du maître. Van Dijck Tentoonstelling ter Gelegenheid der 300e Verjaring der Geboorte van den Meester, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp 1899, nos 86 and 87;

L. Cust, A. Van Dyck, London 1900, pp. 17, 214, 235, nos 47 and 48, reproduced pp. 8–9;

P.A.G. Wytsman, Tableaux anciens peu connus en Belgique, 1903, reproduced pl. 29;

E. Schaeffer, Van Dyck: des Meisters Gemälde. Klassiker der Kunst, vol. 13, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1909, p. 140, reproduced;

G. Glück, Van Dyck: des Meisters Gemälde. Klassiker der Kunst, vol. 13, 2nd revised ed., Stuttgart, New York and London 1931, pp. 90–91, reproduced, and p. 528, S. 90 and S. 91 (as unknown location);

E.K. Waterhouse, The Robinson Collection, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London 1958, nos 16 and 17;

A. Scharf, ‘The Robinson Collection’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 100, no. 666, September 1958, p. 303;

L. Burchard, ‘The De Witte Couple by Van Dyck’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 100, no. 666, September 1958, p. 319;

The Joseph Robinson Collection, exh. cat., National Gallery of South Africa, Cape Town 1959, p. 7, nos 17 and 18, reproduced (in the souvenir), pp. 16–17;

Sammlung Sir Joseph Robinson 1840–1929. Werke europäischer Malerei von 15. bis 19., exh. cat., Kunsthaus, Zürich 1962, nos 13 and 14;

E. May (ed.), Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, exh. cat., Kunsthalle, Cologne 1968, nos F6 and F7, reproduced pls 4 and 5;

M. Díaz Padron (ed.), Pedro Pablo Rubens. Exposición Homenaje, exh. cat., Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid, 1977–78, pp. 54–55, nos 29 and 30, reproduced p. 203;

E. Larsen, L’opera completa di Van Dyck 1613–1636, Milan 1980, pp. 96-97, nos 183 and 184, reproduced p. 98 (as around 1618–19);

E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, 2 vols, Freren 1988, vol. II, pp. 42–43, nos 74 and 75, reproduced (as around 1618–19);

H. Vey, in S.J. Barnes, N. De Poorter, O. Millar and H. Vey, Van Dyck. A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London 2004, pp. 362-3, nos III.142 and III.143, reproduced (as from Van Dyck’s second Antwerp period);

A. Merle du Bourg, Antoon van Dyck. Portraits, exh. cat., Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris 2008, pp. 86–89 and 164, nos 16 and 17, reproduced in colour;

S. Melikian, review of the above, in The New York Times, 31 October 2008: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/arts/01iht-melik1.1.17413804.html