Provenance
Probably Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, by 1723
Louis, Duc d'Orléans, by 1727
by descent at the Palais Royal, Paris to Louis-Philippe-Joseph. Duc d'Orléans (Philippe Egalité)
by whom sold in 1791 to Viscount Walchiers
François de Laborde de Méréville
exhibited for sale at Bryan's Gallery, London, 1798-99, nr. 234, but reserved for the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater
by inheritance to the 2nd Marquess of Stafford (later 1st Duke of Sutherland), Stafford House, London
by inheritance to Lord Francis Egerton, later 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House, London
by descent to the 5th Earl of Ellesmore (later 6th Duke of Sutherland) by whom placed on loan to the Gallery in 1945
purchased from the Ellesmere Trustees by private treaty with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1984
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