Commissioned by the sitter’s brother, Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707), Amsterdam, 22 July 1673;{See Entry.} ? his probate inventory, Amsterdam, 9 March 1709, in the Grand Salon of the house on 573 Herengracht, no. 118 (‘een poirtraict van de Hr Jacob de Graaff door Ter Burch f 80,-’);{S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, ‘In presentie van de Heer Gerard ter Borch’, in A.M. Logan (ed.), _Essays in Northern European Art Presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his Sixtieth Birthday_, Doornspijk 1983, pp. 66-71, esp. p. 67, note 9.} ? his probate inventory, Amsterdam, 2 October 1710 (‘Een dito [pourtraict] van den heer Jacob de Graeff door Ten Burgh 80,-’);{GPI, N-470.}…; collection Duc de la Trémoille, Paris;{S.J. Gudlaugsson, _Geraert Ter Borch_, II, The Hague 1960, p. 227.}…; collection Comtesse Duchâtel, Paris, 1874;{_Catalogue supplémentaire des ouvrages de peinture: Exposés au profit de la colonisation de l'Algérie pas les Alsaciens-Lorrains_, exh. cat. Paris (Palais du Corps Législatif) 1874, p. 57, no. 1028, as ‘Jean de Witt’.}…; ? collection Gustave Louis Chaix d’Est-Ange I (1800-1876), Paris, or collection Gustave Chaix d’Est-Ange II (1832-1887), Paris;{S.J. Gudlaugsson, _Geraert Ter Borch_, II, The Hague 1960, p. 227.}…; the dealer F. Kleinberger, Paris;{S.J. Gudlaugsson, _Geraert Ter Borch_, II, The Hague 1960, p. 227.}…; collection August de Ridder (1837-1911), Villa Schönberg, Kronberg im Taunus, 1910;{W. von Bode, _Die Gemäldegalerie des weiland Herrn A. de Ridder in seiner Villa zu Schönberg bei Cronberg im Taunus_, Berlin 1910, p. 39.} his sale, sold on the premises (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris), 2 June 1924, no. 78, as _Portrait of Andries de Graeff (1611-1678)_, fr. 85,000;{Copy RMA.}…; sale Jean Sauphar (1890-1928, Hunedoara [Romania]), Lair-Dubreuil, Mannheim, et al., Paris (Hôtel Drouot), 17 (18) June 1930 _sqq._, no. 15, as presumably _Portrait of Andries de Graeff (1611-1678)_, fr. 138,000, to the dealer John Levy;{Copy RMA.} John Levy Galleries, New York, 1934;{K. Grant Sterne, ‘Some Old Masters in New York Galleries’, _Parnassus_ 3 (1931), no. 2, pp. 6-11, esp. p. 11; S.J. Gudlaugsson, _Geraert Ter Borch_, II, The Hague 1960, p. 227.}…; consigned by an unknown collector to the dealer Paul Cassirer & Co., Amsterdam, December 1938;{Note RMA.} from whom, fl. 30,000, to H. Posse, for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz (inv. no. 1341), 7 September 1940;{B. Schwarz, _Hitlers Museum: Die Fotoalben Gemäldegalerie Linz: Dokumente zum ‘Führermuseum’_, Vienna 2004, p. 107, no. III/23.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945 (inv. no. NK 2351);{Provenance from 1874 to 1945 reconstructed by R.E.O. Ekkart et al., _Herkomst Gezocht: De geschiedenis van ruim 4700 kunstwerken die na WO II uit Duitsland terugkwamen en sindsdien de NK-collectie vormen/Origins Unknown: The History of over 4700 Works of Art that Returned from Germany to The Netherlands after World War II and Have since then Incorporated the NK Collection_ The Hague 2006 (CD-ROM); the Munich Central Collecting Point number 1537/2 is recorded in black ink on the reverse of the panel.} on loan from the SNK to the museum, 1948 (inv. no. SK-C-1376); transferred to the museum, 1960
