Provenance

The Malaspina family, Elizabeth della Rovere, sister of Guidobaldo II, who married Alberico I Cybo Malaspina, Marchese di Massa and Carrara
Abate Luigi Celotti, Venice, until 1837
Count Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1875), San Donato, Florence, 1837
his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 3-4 March 1870, nr. 187 (17,500 francs)
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 3rd Marquess of Westminster, later 1st Duke of Westminster (1825-1899), 1870, and by descent at Grosvenor House, and elsewhere to his grandson,
Hugh Richard Arthur, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879-1953)
sale (†) Sotheby’s, London, 24 June 1959, nr. 17 (?24,000)
with Matthiesen Gallery, London, by 1962, where acquired by the present owner
sale Christie's, London, 19 April 2018, nr. 31

Other works by Titian

Portrait of a Man

The Virgin with Child, Saint Mary Magdalene and Other Saints
c. 1520

The Virgin and Child
1570-76

Cardinal Pietro Bembo
c. 1540

The Emperor Charles V on Horseback, in Mühlberg
1548