Provenance
Painted for the Dal Basso chapel, San Francesco della Vigna, Venice
Marquis of Caracena, Milan and Madrid, by 1668
acquired in Spain by Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, 1707/8
by descent in the Orleans collection at the Palais Royal, Paris, to Louis-Philippe-Joseph, Duc d'Orleans (Philippe Égalité)
by whom sold in 1791 to Viscount Walchiers
François de Laborde de Mereville
exhibited for sale at Bryan's Gallery, London, 1798-9 (nr.208), but reserved for the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater
by inheritance to the and 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 Ellesmere (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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