Verrazzano family, Florence; Vai family, Florence. Ridolfi family, Florence. G. Sonnino, New York. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Florence and Rome). Mario Modestini, New York;[1] sold 1956 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA. [1] See letter written by (then) NGA assistant director J. Carter Brown dated 28 March 1967. In addition, a letter from F.B. Adams Jr. states that Modestini, the Kress Foundation's conservator, sold the sculpture to the Foundation and was acting on the behalf of someone in Rome.