...; collection Balthasar Theodorus, Baron van Heemstra van Froma en Eibersburen (1809-78), Leiden and The Hague;{Lunsingh Scheurleer et al. supposed that the cabinet was already in Van Heemstra’s collection when he lived at Rapenburg, 26, Leiden from 1862-69, see T.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer, C.W. Fock and A.J. van Dissel (eds.), _Het Rapenburg. Geschiedenis van een Leidse gracht_, 6 vols., Leiden 1986-92, IVb, pp. 558, 559 fig. 12; he subsequently lived in The Hague where he died.} his sale, The Hague (C. van Doorn), 16 February 1880 _sqq_., no. 520, fl. 560, to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague (inv. no. 4789); transferred to the museum, 1883; on loan to the Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, 2011-12, and the Museum Rockoxhuis, Antwerp, 2013-17
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