Apparently first recorded in the Palazzo S. Giacomo Balbi (owned by the Balbi della Piovera), Genoa, when in the possession of Francesco-Maria Balbi, in 1758, and copied by Fragonard there in 1761. Recorded again in 1780, as the principal painting in the fourth Salon. Acquired by Andrew Wilson (1780-1848) (with fifteen other pictures) 5 November 1805, and acquired from him in London by. Walsh Porter (d. 1809) as 'The Family of Rubens'. Walsh Porter
London, 12 March ff. 1810, lot 13 (unsold). Walsh Porter
Christies, London, 14 April 1810, lot 49 (unsold). (An annotation in a sale catalogue, probably by John Smith, stated that the picture was with the King in 1823). Joseph Gillot, Birmingham
(+) Christies, London, 3 May (5th day) 1872, lot 350 (sold 1230 gns., buyer's name indistinct). Sir Francis Cook, 1st Bt. (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, by 1875, and by descent to his great-grandson, Sir Francis Cook, 4th Bt., by whom given to Brenda, Lady Cook.