Provenance: Purchased 1863 in Rome by William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington;[1] gift 1873 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] See letter of 12 October 1863 from the sculptor to Corcoran, in Letterbook 12, 22 September 1863 - 13 June 1864, The Papers of William Wilson Corcoran, Library of Congress, Washington; copy in NGA curatorial files.