Created by the artist for his friend, the writer Gregorio Comanini, who describes it in 1591.[1] Giovanni Pietro Cortoni, Verona, in 1656.[2] rediscovered 2006 in the collection of Ms. Stott, England, in whose family it had been since the early 20th century; sold 2006 to a private collection, the Netherlands; sold 2010 through (Pandora Old Masters, New York) to NGA. [1] Gregorio Comanini, _Il Figino, overo del fine della Pittura_, 1591, translated by Anne Doyle-Anderson and Giancarlo Maiorino in _The Figino, or On the Purpose of Painting: Art Theory in the late Renaissance_, University of Toronto, 2001; pp. 27-28 contains the passage referring to the _Four Seasons in One Head_. [2] Recorded in the inventory after Cortoni’s death in 1656, Inventario delle piture del quondam Ecc. mo. Sig. Dott. Gio. Pietro Cortoni di Verona, Archivio Assolino, Biblioteca Communale, Jesi, Italy, described in the Getty Provenance Index of archival documents no. I-3433.