Provenance

Johann Dominik Bossi (1767-1853)
thence by descent to his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline (1825-1881), who married Carle Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (1826-1881) in 1853
The Bossi-Beyerlen collection, Stuttgart
their sale, Munich, Helbing, 29 September 1917, nrs. 48 and 49 (as Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo)
Leo Spik, Berlin,1950s
Heinrich Vetter collection, Mannheim
with Jean-Luc Baroni, Ltd., by 2008
from whom acquired by the present collector
Sale Sotheby's, New York, 1 February 2018. nr. 52

Other works by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Charlatan
c. 1754

Hercules and Cacus

Christ and the Adulteress
c. 1758

Rebecca at the Well
1751

Head of a Bearded Man in Oriental Dress