…; ? Kunstkammer Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612), Prague;{Possibly to be identified as _Ain tafl von metal, so aine schlafende Venus_ (A plate of metal, a sleeping Venus) in the 1619 inventory of his Kunstkammer, see G. Kugler et al., _Prag um 1600: Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Rudolfs II._, exh. cat. Essen (Villa Hügel)/Vienna (Kunsthistorisches Museum) 1988, no. 540.} ? looted by Swedish troops, 26 July 1648; ? transferred to the Swedish Crown, Queen Christina I of Sweden (1626-1689), Stockholm;{Possibly to be identified as a wax (!) relief mentioned in the 1642 inventory of Queen Christina I of Sweden: _De Prague. Un tableau representant en cire une femme endormie avec un cupidon._ O. Granberg, _Svenska konstsamlingarnas historia fran Gustav Vasas tid till vara dagar_, vol. 1, Stockholm 1929, p. 208, no. 19. However, this could also allude to an unknown wax cast.} ? her son, King Carl X Gustav of Sweden (1622-1660), 1654;{For the reconstruction of the following provenance see B. Martinius et al., _Skattkammaren på Läckö_, coll. cat. Stockholm (Nationalmuseum) 2006, pp. 33-34, 36 and written communication Magnus Olausson, 1 August 2009.} ? his wife, Hedvig Eleonora van Holstein-Gottorp (1636-1715), 1660; ? her private councilor Count Johan Gabriel Stenbock (1640-1705), Stockholm; ? bequeathed to Stina Lillie (1677-1727), Stockholm; ? her daughter, Ulla Sparre (1711-1768), Castle Åkerö in Bettna, married to Count Carl Gustav Tessin (1695-1770), documented in 1735 and 1761;{He described the relief in his 1735 diary as _ett naketqwinfolck och tvenne två karlar_ (a naked woman and two men) and in his 1761 as _Tarquin et Lucrèce bas relief I bronze af Jean de Boulogne_ (a bronze bas-relief of Tarquin and Lucretia by Giambologna), see B. Martinius et al., _Skattkammaren på Läckö_, coll. cat. Stockholm (Nationalmuseum) 2006, pp. 33-34, 36 and notes 19-20.} ? from whom acquired by Georg Brander, London, April 1763;{B. Martinius et al., _Skattkammaren på Läckö_, coll. cat. Stockholm (Nationalmuseum) 2006, p. 36.} …; presented to the museum by the N.V. Internationale Antiquiteitenhandel, Amsterdam (I. Rosenbaum) to celebrate the museum’s 50th anniversary, 1935
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