The panel was described in 1560 by historian Pietro Lamo as in the palazzo in Bologna of Count Giorgio Manzuoli; according to Vasari, Parmigianino would have painted it for this patron. Yet a document dated 1533 states that the artist was paid fifty gold scudos by a Bolognese patrician, Bonifacio Gozzadini, for a work that has been identified with ours. In 1605 it was exhibited in the Tribuna, where it remained until 1848, but no records have survived of the year this painting first entered the Medici collections.