Studio of Jacob Jordaens Antwerp 1593 - 1678

Possibly Hillegonda Maria van Heemskerk, The Hague, 1733;
Anonymous sale (identified by Jaffe as the Jacob Jordaens sale), The Hague, 22 March 1734, lot 66 (as by Jordaens);
Richard Cosway, London, by 1791,
His sale, London, Christie's, 3 March 1792, lot 74, to Simpson;
Possibly with Knight, Frank and Rutley, London, sold to Koetser;
With David M. Koetser Gallery, New York and Zurich, sold to Held;
Julius S. Held, New York, by 1965/6;
With Central Pictures Galleries, New York, sold to Morris I. Kaplan, before 1968 (as Venus and Marseus);
Morris I. Kaplan, Chicago, 1968;
By whose Executors offered, London, Sotheby's, 12 June 1968, lot 57;
By whose Executors sold, London, Sotheby's, 8 December 1971, lot 51, for 800 Pounds, to the J. Paul Getty Museum (inv. no. 71.PB.62).  

Northridge, California State University, Baroque Masters from the J. Paul Getty Museum, 26 February - 30 March 1973, no. 21.

G. Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen, vol. I, Soest 1976, (reprint of 1752), p. 403, no. 66 (as by Jordaens);
J. Held, 'Review of R.-A. d'Hulst, Jordaens Drawings', in The Art Bulletin, vol. LX, no. 4, December 1978, pp. 726, 728 (as The Punishment of Pan(?)), reproduced p. 728, fig. 10 (detail);
M. Jaffé, 'Review of d'Hulst, Jordaens Drawings 1974, and d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens, 1982', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXXVI, no. 981, December 1984, pp. 784-7, reproduced fig. 58;
D. Jaffé, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 1997, p. 65, reproduced.

In his characteristically caustic review of D'Hulst's books on Jordaens' paintings and drawings, and notwithstanding the fact that the former is a selective monograph and not a comprehensive catalogue raisonné, Michael Jaffé (see under Literature) draws the reader's attention to a number of paintings that the reviewer felt had been unwisely overlooked, including the present work.  Jaffé assumed that the 1734 sale in The Hague was that of Jacob Jordaens. 

There is a preliminary drawing for the figure of Venus in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (inv. no. A 98v).