Michele Tosini, called Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio

Abbot Giovanni Rayn (1800-1855), Fano (inv. no. 125.138);

By whom bequeathed to the Compagnia di Gesù, Fano;

By whom likely sold on the art market, Rome;

Gustave Mailand (1810-1880), Paris;

His estate sale, Paris, Drouot, 2 May 1881, lot 4 (as Cristofano Allori);

Where acquired by "Granet," for 1,850 francs;

Charles T.D. Crews (1838-1914), 41 Portman Square, London;

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Mrs. M.A.G. Crews (d. 1924), 41 Portman Square, London;

Her estate sale, London, Foster's, 4 February 1924, lot 68 (as Bronzino);

Where acquired by "Stone," for £393.15;

With Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1927;

Baron Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza (1875-1947), by 1930;

With Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1934 and until July 1940 when Aryanised by Reichsmarschall Herman Göring;

Recovered by the Monuments Men and taken to the Munich Central Collection Point, 1945 (MCCP no. 5303);

In the custody of the Dutch Government (inv. no. NK 1418);

Restituted to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker and Kunsthandel Jacques Goudstikker NV., 6 February 2006;

By whom sold ("Property from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker"), New York, Christie's, 19 April 2007, lot 17;

Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.

Catalogue de la collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam 1927, p. 4, cat. no. 7, reproduced (as Bronzino);

Catalogue des Nouvelles Acquisitions de la Collection Goudstikker, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1927, n.p., cat. no. 9 (as Bronzino);

Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz, Gemälde, exhibition catalogue, Munich 1930, p. 13, cat. no. 41 (as Bronzino);

Italiaanshe Kunst in Nederlandsch Bezit, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam 1934, p. 53, cat. no. 56, reproduced (as Bronzino);

R. van Marle, "La pittura all'Esposizione d'arte antica italiana di Amsterdam," in Bollettino d'Arte 28, no. 7 (January 1935), p. 312 (as Bronzino);

Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, The Netherlands Office for Fine Arts, The Hague, Old Master Paintings, An Illustrated Catalogue, Zwolle 1992, p. 56, cat. no. 330, reproduced (as Francesco Brina?);

H.J. Hornik, Michele Tosini and the Ghirlandaio Workshop in Cinquecento Florence, Portland 2009, p. 102, reproduced (as Tosini);

K. Morris, in Eye to Eye, European Portraits 1450-1850, exhibition catalogue, R. Rand, K. Morris, and D. Ekserdjian (eds.), Williamstown 2011, pp. 80-83, cat. no. 12, reproduced (as Tosini).

Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, La collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 11 - 26 June 1927, no. 7 (as Bronzino);

Munich, Neue Pinakothek, Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz, 1930, no. 41 (as Bronzino);

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Italiaanshe Kunst in Nederlandsch Bezit, 1 July - 1 October 1934, no. 56 (as Bronzino);

Maastricht, Bonnefantenmusuem, unspecified dates, while in the custody of the Rijksdienst;

Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Eye to Eye, European Portraits 1450-1850, 23 January - 27 March 2011, no. 12.