Death of Adonis,

1639

John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745–1799); by descent to his widow, Arabella Diana Sackville (née Cope, later Whitworth), Duchess of Dorset (1769–1825); by descent to her eldest daughter, Lady Mary Sackville (1792-1864); by descent to her younger sister, Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr (1795–1870); by descent to her 4th son, Mortimer Sackville-West, 1st Baron Sackville (1820-1888); by descent to his younger brother, Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville (1827-1908); by descent to his nephew, Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville (1867-1928). With Spink & Son, London by 1930; 1930 purchase by Princeton University Art Museum.

formerly attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, 1577–1640; born Siegen, Germany; died Antwerp, Belgium

• John Bridgman, An historical and topographical sketch of Knole, in Kent: with a brief genealogy of the Sackville family..., (London: W. Lindsell, 1821)., p. 45
• Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.?, "Notes", Bulletin of the Department of Art and Archaeology (Sept., 1930): p. 12-14.,

• Baldwin Smith, "Art and the undergraduate", Bulletin of the Department of Art and Archaeology (Feb., 1931): p. 5-9.

• Jan-Albert Goris and Julius S. Held, Rubens in America, (New York: Pantheon, 1947)., p. 53; no. A79
• Charles-Rogers Bordley, Rubens ou Snyders?, (Paris: La Nef de Paris, 1955?)., p. 144
• "Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Galleries: given by Carl Otto von Kienbusch of the Class of 1906," Record othe Art Museum, Princeton University 25, no. 1/2 (1966): 15–19., p. 16 (illus.)
• Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: an illustrated catalogue raisonné of the work of Peter Paul Rubens based on the material assembled by the late Dr. Ludwig Burchard in twenty-six parts, (Brussels: Nationaal Centrum voor de Plastische Kunsten van de XVIde en XVIIde Eeuw (Belgium), 1968-2016)., Vol. 18: p. 249; no. 24a
• Seventeenth century landscapes: Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch: problems of authenticity in nineteenth and twentieth century art, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1973)., p. 53; no. 39 (illus.)
• Julius S. Held, The oil sketches of Peter Paul Rubens: a critical catalogue, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980)., Vol. 1: p. 307
• MIchael Jaffe, Rubens: catalogo completo, (Milano: Rizzoli, 1989)., p. 180, no. 170