Given by the artist in an album to the Library of the Somasco Convent at Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1762; Conte Leopoldo Cicognara (1767–1834), Venice; to Antonio Canova (1757–1822), Venice; to his half-brother, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori-Canova (1775–1858), Italy; sold to Francesco Pesaro (or Posaro), Venice; sold to Edward Cheney (1803–1848), Badger Hall, Shropshire, 1842 [The entire provenance is detailed by Edward Cheney. A copy of this text is reproduced in the London 1928 exh. cat.]; by descent to his nephew, Colonel Alfred Capel Cure (1826–1896), Blake Hall, Ongar, Essex, England; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Apr. 29, 1885, part of lot 1024, to E. Parsons and Sons, London. Savile Gallery, London, by 1928 [London 1928]. Sir Richard Owen (died 1951), Lancaster and London. F. A. Drey, London. Dr. (1898–1974) and Mrs. Francis Carl Springell, by 1954 [London 1954–55]; sold, Sotheby's, London, June 30, 1986, lot 79. Kate de Rothschild, London, and Galerie Didier Aaron, Paris, London and New York, by 1987 [London 1987]; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, 1988 [Sotheby's, New York, Jan. 23, 2008, lot. 84 (sold, but exchanged by request of bidder for an unsold lot in the sale just after the auction); Sotheby's, London, July 8, 2009, lot 74 (unsold)]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.