Giovanni Francesco di Niccolò Luteri, called Dosso Dossi

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 7 March 1952, lot 72, for £190 to Drummond or Jones;

William Martin Esq., by 1955;

Peter Corbett, London, by April 1965 (according to an annotation by Gibbons on a photograph in the Fototeca Berenson);

Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Christie’s, 6 December 2007, lot 66;

Where acquired.

Birmingham, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Italian Art from the 13^th century to the 17^th century, 18 August – 2 October 1955, no. 41 (as ‘Ariadne?’; lent by William Martin).

D. Sutton, ‘Lessons of Italian Painting’, review of the Birmingham exhibition, in Country Life, 8 September 1955, pp. 493, reproduced p. 492;

B. Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London 1968, vol. I, p. 112 (as belonging to Peter Corbett);

F. Gibbons, Dosso and Battista Dossi. Court painters at Ferrara, Princeton 1968, p. 227, no. 99, reproduced fig. 136 (as Battista Dossi, late 1520s);

A. Ballarin, Dosso Dossi. La pittura a Ferrara negli anni del Ducato di Alfonso I, Padua 1995, vol. I, p. 321, no. 399, reproduced vol. II, fig. 561 (as Battista Dossi, circa 1518–19);

P. Vandenbroeck, A glimpse of the concealed. Body intuition art, exh. cat., Antwerp 2017, p. 331, reproduced in colour p. 333.