Attributed to Federico Zuccaro

Benjamin West, P.R.A. (1738-1820), London (L.419);

Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830), London (L. 2445);

Samuel Woodburn,

sale, London, Christie's, 4 June 1860, part of lot 1074 (60 gns to Sir Thomas Phillipps, as Taddeo Zuccaro),

Sir Thomas Phillipps,

by descent to his grandson T. Fitzroy Fenwick, who sold the Zuccaro album which contained this drawing in 1930 to Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, the New York dealer in books and manuscripts,

Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia;

The British Rail Pension Fund, acquired in 1978,

sale, New York, Sotheby's, 11 January 1990, lot 25, illustrated ($63.260, as Taddeo Zuccaro);

With Albrecht Neuhaus;

sale, New York, Christie's, 30 January 1997, lot 17 (as Taddeo Zuccaro),

where acquired by the present owner

J.A Gere, Taddeo Zuccaro. His Development Studied in His Drawings, London, 1969, no. 214 and under no. 96 (as 'variants, apparently products of the studio');

J.A. Gere, 'The Lawrence-Phillipps-Rosenbach "Zuccaro Album"', Master Drawings, vol. VIII (1970), no. 30, fig. 6 (as Studio of Taddeo Zuccaro);

J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Artists working in Rome c. 1550 to c. 1640, London 1983, under no. 333 (as 'a close variant');

C. Acidini Luchinat, Taddeo e Federico Zuccari, fratelli pittori del Cinquecento, Milan 1998, vol. I, p. 263, note 156, (as a workshop version: 'molto arguto e vivace, di un buon collaboratore' , very subtle and spirited, by a good studio hand)

London, The Lawrence Gallery, One hundred Original Drawings by Zucchero, Andrea del Sarto, Polidore da Caravaggio and Fra Bartolomeo, April 1836 (as Taddeo Zuccaro)