Godefroy Brauer [1857-1923], Paris and Nice;[1] purchased 1907 by J.P. Morgan [1837-1913], New York, until at least 1923;[2] (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased January 1935 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.;[3] deeded 1 May 1937 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA. [1] Belle de Costa Greene of the J.P. Morgan Gallery stated in a letter dated 22 January 1940 that Morgan bought the work from "G. Brauer," most likely the dealer and collector Godefroy Brauer. [2] Provenance prior to Andrew Mellon is according to a letter from the Pierpont Morgan Library, in NGA curatorial files, which indicates the work may have come from the Hainauer Collection. From 1907-1916 the work was on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as indicated in the _Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art_, vol. II, 1907. A letter dated 22 January 1948 from M. Knoedler & Company, in NGA curatorial files, states that in 1916 the work was relocated to the Morgan Library. Morgan lent the sculpture to _The Metropolitan Loan Exhibition of Arts in the Italian Renaissance_ in 1923. [3] The 1940 letter (see note 1) states that Morgan sold the work to Mellon through Knoedler & Company.