Provenance
collection Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921), Kidderminster, 1905
his sale, London (Christie’s), 24 February 1922, nr. 157, as Bronzino (‘Portrait of the son of Cosimo I. de’ Medici’), £ 46 4 s, to the dealer Duits, London
from whom, as Bronzino, £ 63 14 s, to the dealer Krantz and De Bruyn, The Hague and Rotterdam
collection of Dominicus Antonius Josephus Kessler (1855-1939) and Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann (1868-1947), Kapelle op den Bosch, near Mechelen
donated by
Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann to the museum, 1940