Provenance
- by 1702
Possibly David Renouard (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Source: Amsterdam, Gemeentearchief NAA 3354, ff. 1675-1709; possibly the same as no. 27, "2 Armeniens de Cavaliere Swarte," recorded in a 1702 posthumous inventory.
- 1719
Possibly Quiryn van Biesum (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) [sold, van Biesum sale, Rotterdam, October 18, 1719, lot 96.]
Source: Stechow. "Some Portraits by Michael Sweerts." The Art Quarterly 14, no. 3 (Autumn 1951).
Note: in catalogue as "Een Periaen"
- 1808
Jean-Ignace-Aloyse Vander Beke [sold, Beke sale, Goesin, Ghent, May 24, 1808, lot B0048, to van Rotterdam.]
Source: Provenance Index: Belgian sales; Benjamin Perronet (Fredericksen memo); Stechow (1951).
1808 - 1835
Dr. van Rotterdam [sold, van Rotterdam sale, Regemorter, Ghent, July 6, 1835, lot 100, to van Regemorter.]
Source: Provenance Index: Belgian sales.
Note: as "Antique Italian"
1835 -
van Regemorter (possibly Ignatius Jozef Pieter van Regemorter)
Source: Provenance Index: Belgian sales.
about 1949/1950 -
1951
Private Collection (New York, New York)
Source: Stechow (1951).
- by 1958
Samuel Nystad Oude Kunst B. V. (The Hague, The Netherlands)
by 1958 - about 1985
A. Schwarz, died 1984/1985? (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), by inheritance to his daughter, Nettie (Schwarz) Vanderpol.
Source: Kultzen and Di Carpegna. Michael Sweerts en Tijdgenoten, exh. cat. (Rotterdam: Museum Boymans, 1958).
by 1985
Nettie (Schwarz) Vanderpol, born 1926 (Boston, Massachusetts), sold through Samuel Nystad Oude Kunst B.V. (The Hague, The Netherlands), to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1985.