The Verrazzano family, Florence; the Vai family, Florence. The 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.[2] [1] See letter written by (then) NGA assistant curator J.Carter Brown dated 38 March 1967. In addition, a letter written by 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. [2] Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, _Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century_, London, 1976: 72.