Commissioned by the sitter, then by inheritance in the Altoviti family, Rome and later Florence;[1] sold November 1808 via Johann Metzger to Ludwig I, King of Bavaria [1786-1868]; presented to the Alte Pinakothek, Munich; traded September 1938 to (Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London);[2] sold October 1938 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[3] sold 1940 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1943 to NGA. [1] The complete provenance of this painting is described in David Alan Brown and Jane Van Nimmen, _Raphael & the Beautiful Banker_, New Haven and London, 2005. [2] Regarding deaccessions from the Pinakothek, see also Jonathan Petropoulos, _The Faustian Bargain_, Oxford, 2000: 31+. [3] The painting is listed in the General Stock Book of Duveen Brothers that covers the period 1 June 1937 to April 1941 (copy in NGA curatorial files; Duveen Brothers Records, Accession No. 960015, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Reel 66, Box 186). [4] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/390.