Provenance
Probably Anna Theresia van Halen
her sale, Antwerp, 19 August 1749, nr. 1
Gaillard de Gagny (receiver of finances), Grenoble
his estate sale, Pierre Remy, Paris, 29 March 1762, nr. 9
purchased by Jean-Henri Eberts for Markgräfin Karoline Luise von Baden (1723-1783)
her sale, Amsterdam, 6 March 1769, nr. 3
Etienne-François, duc de Choiseul (1719-1785), Paris and Château de Canteloup, Touraine
his sale, at his residence, Paris, 6-10 April 1772, nr. 1
purchased through Augustin Ménageot, Paris by Prince Alexander M. Golitzyn for Catherine II, empress of Russia (1729-1796), for the
Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg
purchased March 1930, as a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, through Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin,
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, and
M. Knoedler & Co., New York by
Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA