Provenance: Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London; purchased 1862 by Louis-Charles Timbal [1821-1880], Paris; sold 1872 with Timbal's collection to Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris;[1] his estate; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc, London, New York, and Paris); purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[2] gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] Gaston Migeon, _Gustave Dreyfus, Vice-Président de la Société des Amis du Louvre: Notice lue à l'Assemblé générale annuelle de la Société des Amis du Louvre, le 5 Février 1929_, Paris, 1929: 5-6.
[2] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files; the sculpture is listed as by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo.