Probably Catherine II of Russia [1729-1796], Saint Petersburg; Prince Gregory Alexandrovich Potemkin; his grand niece, Darja Nikolajewna Lopouchina, Moscow; W.N. Isakoff, Kiev, before 1904 until probably 1923.[1] David David-Weill [1871-1952], Neuilly-sur-Seine, before 1925;[2] sold 1937 to (Wildenstein & Co., New York), until at least 1940.[3] purchased 1949 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1952 to NGA. [1] The early provenance is from Adrien Prachoff, "La Vestale, statue en marbre de Clodion, dans la collection de W.N. Isakoff," _Khudozhestvennyia sokrovishcia Rossii [Les trésors d'art en Russie]_ 4, no. 2 (1904): 53-56, pls. 20-23. A sculpture that is probably the NGA marble is mentioned as being in an unnamed St. Petersburg private collection in E.F. Bange, _Die Bildwerke in Bronze und in Anderen Metallen, Arbeiten in Perlmutter und Wachs Geschnittene Steine_, vol. 2 of 4, _Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums_, Berlin and Leipzig, 1923: 46. Tracey Berg-Fulton, of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, kindly brought the 1923 reference to the Gallery's attention; see her e-mail of 21 January 2015, in NGA curatorial files. [2] Gabriel Henrist, "La Collection David-Weill," _L'Amour de l'Art_, 1925: 14. [3] "Sale of the David-Weill Collection," _Art News_ 35 (27 February 1937): 12. The sculpture was exhibited by Wildenstein in 1940 as formerly part of the David-Weill collection.