Girolamo Cavazza [d. 1717], Bologna;[1] purchased 3 June 1697 by (Marcantonio Franceschini) for Prince Johann Adam Andreas of Liechtenstein [1657-1712], Vienna;[2] by descent through the Princes of Liechtenstein to Prince Franz Josef II von und zu Liechtenstein [1906-1989], Vienna, subsequently Vaduz, until 1962;[3] purchased 1962 through (Feilchenfeldt, Zurich) by NGA. [1] The signature on the 1697 bill of sale (copy in NGA curatorial files) has now been deciphered to read Girolamo Cavazza. Cavazza was apparently a wealthy Bolognese merchant who owned a number of paintings. On Cavazza see Dwight C. Miller, _Marcantonio Franceschini and the Lichtensteins_, Cambridge, 1991: 36, n. 4, 63, 209, n. a; Giuseppe Guidicini, _Cose notabili della città di Bologna_, 5 vols., Bologna, 1868-1873: 1:43, and _Miscellanea storico-patria bolognese_, Bologna, 1872: 255. [2] In December 1693 January 1694, Franceschini, at Prince Johann Adam Andreas' request, began looking at paintings that Cavazza was reportedly willing to sell; some of the paintings mentioned at this time appear in the bill of sale of 1697. The letters are published in Miller 1991: 209, no. 34; 212-213, no. 38. As Franceschini's letters for the period May 1694 December 1698 are lost, it is not possible to follow the exact transactions. See also Fritz Wilhelm, "Neue Quellen zur Geschichte des fürstlichen Liechtensteinischen Kunstbesitzes", _Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Institutes der k.k. Zentralkommission für Denkmalpflege_ 5 (1911), Beilage: cols. 87- 142. [3] Recorded by the following, always as Caravaggio: Vincenzio Fanti, _Descrizzione completa di tutto ciò che ritrovasi nella galleria di pittura e scultura di Sua Altezza Giuseppe Wenceslao del S.R.I. Principe Regnante della Casa di Liechtenstein...data in luce di Vincenzio Fanti_, Vienna, 1767: 91, no. 452; Johann Dallinger and Abate Lucchini, _Description des tableaux et des pièces de sculpture que renferme la Gallerie de son Altesse François Joseph Chef et Prince Regnant de la maison de Liechtenstein_, Vienna, 1780: 173-174, no. 579; Gustav Friedrich Waagen, _Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien_, Vienna, 1866: 261-262; Jakob von Falke, _Katalog der Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bildergallerie im Gartenpalais i der Rossau zu Wien_, Vienna, 1873: 9, no. 61 (also 1885, 6, no. 31); A. Kronfeld, _Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien_, Vienna, 1927: 8, no. 31; Erich Strohmer, _Die Gemäldegalerie des Fürsten Liechtenstein in Wien_, Vienna, 1943: 93, pl. 18.