The work was recorded as being owned by Jacobus van Veerle and his wife Jan in Antwerp in 1650. It was later recorded in Edward White's collection in London in 1870 and - via a Christie's auction and with Colnaghi as an intermediary - then passed to Sir Francis Cook at Doughty House in Richmond upon Thames. His descendants eventually sold it in 1947 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, who donated it to its present owner in 1952.[2]
References
^Kia Vahland, Sebastiano del Piombo. A Venetian in Rome, Hantje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008. ISBN978-3-7757-2145-5