Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 19 February 1997, lot 82, for £5,000, where purchased by the present owner.

The canvas is unlined. The paint surface is fairly abraded and dirty with some paint flaking off along the edges. There are scattered retouchings. Offered in a carved wood and plaster gilt frame in fair condition.
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A 19th-century  copy after Raphael's original in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome (see Jürg Meyer zur Capellen, Raphael, The Paintings,  Münster 2005, pp. 195-209, reproduced plate 66).