Charles Fox, Rutland, England, probably by 1847 [based on the exhibition history of its likely pendant, The Amorous Turk, belonging to the Sarah Blaffer Campbell Foundation, Houston, see Wise 1996]; probably sold 1849 [according to labels formerly on the back of the painting, now in curatorial file]. E. Gimpel and Wildenstein, New York, by 1920 [according to another label formerly on the back of the painting, now in curatorial file]; sold to Delia Spencer Caton, Mrs. Marshall Field I, Washington, D.C., by 1920 (died 1937); by descent to her niece, Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, [according to letters in Art Institute archives]; given to the Art Institute, 1948.