Francesco di Stefano, called Pesellino

Art market, Italy or Paris;

Where acquired by Charles Timbal (1821-1880), Paris, by 1865;

From whom acquired by Gustave Dreyfus (1837-1914), Paris, 1872;

Thence by descent to his five heirs, Paris;

From whom acquired by Duveen Brothers, New York, 1930 (inv. no. D78);

With Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York (in partial ownership with Duveen), 1962-1964;

With Duveen Brothers, New York, 1964;

From whom acquired, with the rest of Duveen's stock, by the Norton Simon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, 1964 (inv. no. D149);

From whom acquired by Eugene V. Thaw, New York, 1978;

From whom acquired by Martin Peretz, United States, 1983;

From whom acquired, via private sale, Sotheby's, London, by a private collector, 2002;

By whom anonymously sold ("Property from a Private Collection"), London, Sotheby's, 6 July 2011, lot 56;

Where acquired by the present collector.

M. Logan [Berenson], "Compagno di Pesellino et quelques peintures de l'école," in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 26 (July 1901), p. 28, reproduced (with landscape overpainted, as Compagno di Pesellino);

S. Reinach, Tableaux inédits ou peu connus, Tirés de collections Françaises, Paris 1906, pp. 32-33, reproduced pl. XXIV (with landscape overpainted, as Compagno di Pesellino);

J. Guiffrey, "La Collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, II, La Peinture," in Les Arts 73 (January 1908), p. 10, reproduced p. 13 (with landscape overpainted, as Circle of Verrocchio);

S. Reinach, Répertoire de Peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, vol. IV, Paris 1918, p. 421, reproduced fig. 2 (with landscape overpainted, as a line drawing, as Attributed to Pier Lorenzo Pratese);

L. Venturi, Italian Paintings in America, vol. II, New York 1933, p. 11, cat. no. 222, reproduced;

C. Gilbert, Major Masters of the Renaissance, A Loan Exhibition of the Poses Institute of Fine Arts, exhibition catalogue, Meriden 1963, pp. 11-12, cat. no. 3, reproduced;

"Wichtige Austellungen," in Pantheon 21, no. 4 (July-August 1963), p. 252, reproduced p. 250;

A Selection of Italian Paintings, 15th century-18th century, exhibition catalogue, London 1978, unpag., cat. no. 1, reproduced;

A. Noone, in Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition catalogue, P.C. Sutton (ed.), Boston 1992, p. 192, cat. no. 110, reproduced pl. 2;

S. Campbell, Lock, Stock & Barrel: Norton Simon & the House of Duveen, exhibition catalogue, Pasadena 2014, p. 44, cat. no. D149;

N. Silver, in Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed, exhibition catalogue, L. Llewellyn (ed.), London 2023, p. 22.

Waltham, Massachusetts, Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Major Masters of the Renaissance, A Loan Exhibition of the Poses Institute of Fine Arts, 3 May - 9 June 1963, no. 3;

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1964, long-term loan;

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1970, long-term loan;

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 17 June - 16 August 1992, no. 110.