Anna Cornelia van Gogh-Carbentus, Nuenen and Breda [the artist's mother] from the artist between November 1885 and February 1886
Janus Schrauwen, Breda, from the above in April 1888
Jan C. Couvreur, Breda, by whom acquired from the above on 14 August 1902
Kees Mouwen Jr & Willem van Bakel, Breda, by whom acquired from the above between 1902-1903
Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Rotterdam, on consignment from the above by November 1903
H. Daniel Pierson, The Hague, by whom acquired from the above in December 1903

• Rotterdam, Kunstzalen Oldenzeel, Tentoonstelling van schilderijen, teekeningen en aquarellen, door Vincent van Gogh, November - December 1903, no. 58
• Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Ausländische Kunst in Zürich, July - September 1943, no. 711 (titled 'Kopf einer Brabanterin')

Catalogues raisonnés:

• F1668: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 1668 .
• JH691 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no.  691.