German, Nuremberg, circa 1525 or circa 1600

Jakob Goldschmidt (1882-1955), Berlin;

Sale due to persecution of the above, Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt-am-Main, 23 June 1936, lots 49 and 50 (unsold);

Lempertz, Cologne, 11-12 March 1938, lot 164;

With Johannes Hinrichsen, probably acquired at the above sale;

From whom acquired by Emil Georg Bührle, Switzerland;

From whom acquired in 1953 by the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, inv. nos. 53/137 and 53/138;

By whom restituted to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt, 2024

E. F. Bange, Die Kleinplastik der deutschen Renaissance in Holz und Stein, Florence, 1928, p. 38 and pl. 32;

T. Müller, Die Bildwerke in Holz, Ton und Stein von der Mitte des XV. bis gegen Mitte des XVI. Jahrhunderts, cat. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, 1959, pp. 192-193, nos. 188 and 189;

H. Beck and B. Decker (eds.), Dürers Verwandlung in der Skulptur zwischen Renaissance und Barock, exh. cat. Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main, 1981, pp. 289-292, nos. 182 and 183