A﷽lfred de Rothschild CVO (1842–1918), at 1 Seamore Place, London;

By whom bequeathed to his dau🌄ghter Almina 𝐆Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon (1876–1969);

Her sale et al., London, Christie’s, 22 May 1925, lot 58, where purchased by P.& D. Colnaghi for 330 guineas (listed in the catalogue as removed from 1 Seamo⛎re Place), to Colnaghi;

With P. & D. Colnaghi, London, by whom held in half-share with M.🏅 Knoedler & Co., New York, 26 May 1926 (recorded as no. 16183 in Knoedler stock book 7);

From wh🤡om bought by Count Contini, January 1927, for £550;

John E. Aldred (1864–1945) and his wife (d. 1948), Lattingtown, Long Island;

Their sale (‘Property of Mr and Mrs John E. Aldred’), New York, Parke-Bernet Gal🐎leries, 6 December 1940, lot 6 (as Sandro Botticelli and bottega), for $1300, to A. Cohen;

By descent to his son;

By whom sold (‘The Property of a Private Collector, New York’),𓄧 New York, Sotheby’s, 17 January 1985, lot 37 (as studio of Botticelli);

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby’s, ‘Arts of 🌌the Renaissance’, 25 Ja✤nuary 2001, lot 55 (as Botticelli), for $850,000;

Where acquired by a private collector,🀅 Rio de Janeir✤o;

By whom sold by private treaty through Sotheby’s to an Eng𒀰lish private collection in 2🎃012;

From whom acqu𒆙ired by private treaty through Sotheby’s ♌the following year by the present owner.

Y. Yashiro, Sandro Botticelli, London and Boston 1925, vol. I, p. 247 (as school of Bott♍icelliꦏ);

R. Van Marle, The Develoment of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague 1931, vol. 12, p. 227 (incorrectly described as having on the right a pillar decorated in grisaille);

R. Lightbown, Sandro Botticelli, London 1978, vol. II, pp. 152–53, under no. C67, 2 and 3 (under ‘Workshop and school pictures’, as a variant of the Colonna picture; the provenances of nos 2 and 3 are listed incorrectly as re📖lating to different pictures but both refer to the present lot🧸);

M. Cinotti (ed.), Catalogo della pittura italiana dal ’300 al ’700, Milan 1985, p. 111, reproduced (as workshop o🎐f Botticelꦰli);

K. Christiansen, ‘New York: Old Master Paintings (Piero Corsini)’, exhibition review, The Burlington Magazine, vol. 129, n💦o. 1008, March 1987, p. 211🌜 (as workshop of Botticelli; ‘too little is known about Botticelli’s workshop practice to allow a proper conclusion’);

N. Penny, National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings II: Venice 1540–1600, Lond🌜on 2008, pp. 474–75 n. 36 (as one of the very few Italian Renai🦂ssance paintings owned by Alfred de Rothschild);

L. Bellosi, ‘Il recupero di un autografo del Botticelli’, in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 53, 2009, p. 152, reproduced p. ⭕154, fig. 7 (as workshop of Botticelli).

New York, Piero Corsini, Important Old Master Paintings and Discoveries of the Past Year, 1–29 November 1986, no. 2 (as Botticelli, c. 1489–92).