Provenance: Trivulzio Collection, Milan [1]; (purchased by P. & D. Colnaghi Co., London, 1929); (Kennedy and Co., New York, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] This is one of ten prints in a series of the Twelve Apostles by Israhel van Meckenem that was found bound into the Codex Trivulziana, a medieval prayer book in the Trivulzio Library, Milan. The codex was sold to P. & D. Colnaghi in 1929 and the engravings were subsequently removed.