Baccio della Porta, called Fra Bartolommeo

Bequeathed by the artist to his pupil Paolino del Signoraccio, called Fra Paolino (1490-1547), Convent of San Marco, Florence,

inherited from him in 1547 by Suor Plautilla Nelli, Convent of Santa Caterina da Siena, Florence (1523-1588);

purchased in the later 1720s by Cavaliere Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri, Florence (1675-1742), and mounted into an album with other land­scape drawings by Fra Bartolommeo (this drawing retains its original Gabburri mount);

purchased around 1758 from Gabburri's heirs by an English art dealer, William Kent (active 1742-1762), who presumably sold the album at Langford’s, London, 8 and 11 December 1762;

English private collection, by 1768;

the album purchased in 1925 in Southern Ireland by an anonymous collector, then broken up and the drawings sold individually,

sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 November 1957, lot 33 (catalogue by Carmen Gronau);

with P. & D. Colnaghi and Co. Ltd., London;

Richard Zinser, New York;

David Rust, Washington, 1967,

sale, London, Christie's, 12 April 1983, lot 25;

Michael Currier (1961-1998), New York;

with Richard Day, London and New York, at the offices of E.J. Landrigan Inc., An Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1988, no. 8 (reproduced);

with Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd., Old Master Drawings, London, 1999 no. 3 (reproduced),

where acquired by Diane A. Nixon

New York, The Morgan Library & Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, no. 2 (entry by Andrew Robison);

Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art; Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection, 2012-2013, no. 2

W. R. Jeudwine, 'Fine Works on the Market: a Volume of Landscape Drawings by Fra Bartolommeo', Apollo, vol. 66, 1957, p. 135;

C. Gronau, 'Preface', Catalogue of Drawings of Landscapes and Trees by Fra Bartolommeo, The Property of a Gentleman, Sotheby & Co, 1957, pp. II-V;