Giovanni Battista Franco, called Semolei

Private collection;

sale, London, Christie's, 9 December 1980, lot 1;

George R. Goldner, Los Angeles;

with Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, London, Master Drawings 1500-1900, 1990, no. 2;

Finacor Fund, Paris,

sale, New York, Christie's, Cabinet Italien, 28 January 1999, lot 33;

with Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd., London, 1999,

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. 13 (entry by A. Varick Lauder);

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. 13

B. Brejon de Lavergnée, Catalogue des dessins italiens, collection du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris 1997, p. 410, under no. 1119 (as after Franco);

A. Varick Lauder, ‘Absorption and Interpretation: Michelangelo through the Eyes of a Venetian Follower, Battista Franco’, in Reactions to the Master: Michelangelo’s Influence on Art and Artists in the Sixteenth Century, London 2003, p. 103;

A. Varick Lauder, Battista Franco, c. 1510-1561: His Life and Work with Catalogue Raisonné, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2004, vol.1, p. 183, under no. 725; vol. 2, pp. 487-488, cat. no. 270 DA; vol. 4, fig. 173;

A. Varick Lauder, Inventaire général des dessins italiens, Tome VIII, Battista Franco, Paris 2009, p. 76, reproduced fig. 34, p. 77, note 70