Provenance
Balbi family Genoa, until 1819
possibly Auguste de Sivry, Venice
Baron John Benjamin Heath (1790-1879, British consul at Genoa)
sold 1836, in London, to Robert Staynor Holford (1802-1892), Dorchester House, London
by inheritance to his son, Sir George Lindsay Holford, K.C.V.O. (1860-1926), Dorchester House
his estate
purchased February 1926 by
Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris
purchased February 1926 by
Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA