Attributed to Ludovico Lombardo (1507-1575), Probably Rome, third quarter of the 16th century, after the Antique

François Girardon, Paris (see Gallerie de Girardon (sic.), plate III, no. 39, as a bust of « Ptholomée, teste antique de bronze » (sic.);

In the inventory after his death, 1715, no. 48 « Sept grosses testes de bronzes antiques, 600 livres »;

Christie’s London, 11 December 1984, lot 75 (as circle of Tullio Lombardo) ;

Christie’s London, 3 July 1990, lot 70 (as Rome, 17th century);

With Alain Moatti, Paris, acquired in the sale above;

Hubert de Givenchy, acquired from the above;

La Galerie de Girardon, Évocation par Hubert de Givenchy, selling exhibition, Christie’s Paris, 11 - 26 September 2012, no. VII (as attributed to Tullio Lombardo and workshop);

Where acquired.

La Galerie de Girardon, Évocation par Hubert de Givenchy, selling exhibition, Christie’s Paris, 11 - 26 September 2012.

Nicolas Chevallier, after René Charpentier, Vüe d’un des Côtez de la Gallerie du Sr Girardon Sculpteur ordinaire du Roy, 1709, plate III, no. 39 ;

La Galerie de Girardon, Évocation par Hubert de Givenchy, selling exhibition, Christie's Paris, 11-26 September 2012, pp. 78-83, no. VII ;

F. de La Moureyre, « François Girardon collectionneur », in A. Maral, (dir.), Girardon. Le sculpteur de Louis XIV, Paris, 2015, p. 437, fig. 353 & p. 530 (as after Tullio Lombardo).