Possibly Abbé Brasseur;

Possibly whom sold, Bruss🦄els, Mastraeten, 29 March 1825, lot 51 (as Gillis Mostaert, where acquired by "Spruyt");

Art market, England, 1935;

With Samuel Hartveld, London, 1938;

From whom acquired b♌y Louis Jacobs van Merlen (1882-1963),🍃 Antwerp;

Thence by descent, until 2013;

With Johnny van Haeften, London;

From whom acquiꦜred by ꧟the present collector, April 2013.

Anvers, ville de Plantin et de Rubens, exhibition catalog🦹ue, Paris 1954, p. 24, cat. no. 1 (as Anonymous Master);

Antwerpens Gouden Eeuw: Kunst en Kultuur ten Tijde van Plantin, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp 1955, p. 7, cat. no. 437 (as Anonymous);

Gloires des Communes Belges, exhibition catalog🙈ue, Brussels 1960, p. 108⛦, cat. no. 211 (as Flemish School, 16th Century);

Willem van Oranje: Om vrijheid van geweten, exhibition catalogue, Am🔯sterdam 1984, pp. 78-79, cat. no. C52, reproduced;

R. Strong, Art and Power: Renaissance Festivals, 1450-1650, Berkeley 1986, reproduced on the cover;

W.H. Vroom, "Monogrammist M.H.V.H., De Blijde Inkomste van Anjou te Antwerpen, 1582", in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 37, no. 3 (1989) pp. 188-189, re🌄produced fig. 16b;

Armada, 1588-1988, exhibition catalogue, London 1988, p. 116, 💜cat. no. 6.11, reproduced (as Netherlandish School, 16th century);

W.H. Vroom, in Antwerp, Story of a Metropolis (16th-17th Century), exhibition catalogue, Antwerp 1993,๊ p. 267, cat. no. 119, reproduced;

G. von Büren, in Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden,  H. Borggrefe, T. Fusenig and B. Uppen🎃kamp (eds.), exhibition catalogue, Ghent and Amsterdam 2002, p. 303, cat. no. 142, reprodu🐽ced;

E.J. Peters, "Printing Ritual: The Performance of Community in Christopher Plantin's La Joyeuse & Magnifique Entrée de Monseigneur Francoys...d'Anjou," in Renaissance Quarterly 61, no. 2 (Summer 2008), p. 398 note 45.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Galerie Mazarine, Anvers, ville de Plantin et de Rubens, March - April 1954, no. 1;

Antwerp, Stedelijke Feestzaal, Antwerpens Gouden Eeuw: Kunst en Kultuur ten Tijde van Plantin, 13 August - 2 October 1955, no. 437;

Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, Gloires des Communes Belges, 15 October - 15 December 1960, no. 211;

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Willem van Oranje: Om vrijheid van geweten, 28 September - 9 December 1984, no. C52;

London, National Maritime Museum; Belfast, Ulster Museum, Armada, 1588-1988, 20 April 1988 - 8 January 1989, no. 6.11; 

Antwerp, Hessenhuis, Antwerpen, verhaal van een metropool, 16de-17de eeuw, 25 June - 10 October 1993, no. 119;

Lemgo, Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloss Brake; Antwerp, Museum vor Schone Kunsten, Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance Renaissance im Norden, 26 May 2002 - 8 December 2002, no. 142.