Portrait of an Unknown Count or Officer, possibly Jan the Elder (1535-1606), Count of Nassau

? Commissioned by or for Ernst Casimir I (1573-1632), Stadholder of Friesland; inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 16 August 1633, furniture room (‘Den ouden graeff Johan van Nassau’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 40, no. 195.} ? inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 12-14 and 27 September 1731, furniture attic (‘Veertig kleine portraitjes gekomen uit een schoorsteen.’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 40, no. 194.} ? inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 1764, furniture attic (‘Tweeënveertig kleine portraitjes, gekomen uit een schoorsteen.’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer III, 1976, p. 74, no. 1157.}...; first recorded in the museum in 1800/01;{Van Thiel 1981a, p. 191, nos. 50-63, p. 192, nos. 65-78, 79-92.} on loan to the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1924-42; on loan to the Rijksmuseum Muiderslot, Muiden, 1947-71