Provenance
Probably Rogier le Witer (circa 1591–1678);
and by inheritance to his daughter, Maria Catharina Le Witer, (1633–1702), and by descent to
Ferdinand A.D.J.A., Baron Dubois Wellens (1767–1848), Antwerp;
His posthumous sale, Antwerp, P.H. Carpentier, 25 June 1849, lot 5, as [Willem] Van Herp, Le Boeuf Gras, for 1,000 Belgian Francs;
Acquired at the sale by Theodore Bosschaert (1827–57), a member of the Du Bois family;
By inheritance to Louis du Bois de Caters;
By inheritance to Douairière Bosschaert du Bois, Antwerp;
By inheritance to Raymond, Baron de Borrekens, Antwerp;
Thence by descent, from circa 1930 until the 1990s at Kasteel Vorselaer
Sale Sotheby's, London, 6 December 2018, nr. 131
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