Commissioned by Stadholder Willem IV (1711-1751) for the _chambre de presence_ of his spouse Anne of Hannover (1709-1759) at Huis ten Bosch Palace, The Hague (1736-1751), 1735;{L.J. van der Klooster, ‘Jan Baptist Xavery (1697-1742): Documentatie over enkele van zijn werken’, _Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek_ 21 (1970), pp. 99-138, esp. p. 110; D.F. Slothouwer, _De paleizen van Frederik Hendrik_, Leiden 1945, p. 322, no. 811.} with the palace, to their son Stadholder Willem V (1748-1806), 1751; with the palace, confiscated during the Batavian Republic (the Dutch State under French- inspired rule), 1795; dismantled and transferred to the Nationale Kunstgallerij in the same palace, 1800;{E.W. Moes and E. van Biema, _De nationale Konst-Gallery en het Koninklijk Museum: Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van het Rijksmuseum_, Amsterdam 1909, p. 126. In 1808, the relief was stored in _het lattehok op de Zolder_ (‘the batten room in the Attic’).} transferred to the Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, 1817;{The relief appears in a watercolour by Gerrit Lamberts from June 1838, showing the Print Room of the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam, Amsterdam City Archives, see <a href="http://archief.amsterdam/archief/10097/010097000024">inv. no. 010097000024</a>. It was later set in a 17th-century chimney piece of a cloakroom; see L.J. van der Klooster, ‘Jan Baptist Xavery (1697-1742): Documentatie over enkele van zijn werken’, _Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek_ 21 (1970), pp. 99-138, esp. pp. 111-12.} from which, as a long-term loan from the Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen (residing at the Trippenhuis since 1812) to the museum, since 1990
