Domenico Beccafumi

Possibly with Kunstsalon Hermann Abels, Cologne, before 1934;

Private collection, Germany, 1934 (as annotated on a photograph of the present work in the Kunsthistoriches Institut, Florence, donated by ‘H. Abels’ of Cologne);

Dr Müller, Königsforstrasse 38, Cologne, acquired from Kunsthaus am Museum, Cologne, 1967;

By descent, until May 2018;

From whom acquired by the present owners.

M. Maccherini, 'Una pala del Beccafumi da rintracciare', in Prospettiva, 52, 1988, pp. 75–77, reproduced figs 1, 2 and 5;

R. Bartalini, in Domenico Beccafumi e il suo Tempo, exh. cat., 1990 Milan, p. 93 (as location unknown);

P. Torriti (ed.), Beccafumi, Milan 1998, pp. 71–72, cat. no. P10, reproduced p. 69 (location unknown);

P. Dubus, Domenico Beccafumi, Paris 1999, p. 190, cat. no. 8, reproduced.