Probably commissioned by the Piccolomini family, Siena. art market, Florence, c. 1850/1860; Louis Charles Timbal [1821-1880], Paris; sold 1872 with his collection to Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris;[1] his heirs;[2] purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[3] gift 1937 to NGA. [1] Timbal sold his first collection, assembled over the previous 20 years, during the German siege of Paris on 29 November 1872 to Dreyfus; see Douglas Lewis, "Gustave Dreyfus," in _The Dictionary of Art_, ed. Jane Turner, London, 1996: 9:298. [2] See Dora Landau, "Notes from Abroad," _International Studio_ (August 1930): 62, and August L. Mayer, "Die Sammlung Gustave Dreyfus," _Pantheon_ 4, no. 1 (January 1931): 17-18. [3] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files.