Achillito Chiesa, Milan, before 1924.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence);[2] purchased 1932 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] According to National Gallery of Art, _Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture_, Washington, D.C., 1941: 93. Following Chiesa's bankruptcy, his collection was dissolved at several sales in New York and Europe beginning in 1924. See Wesley Towner, _The Elegant Auctioneers_, New York, 1970: 382-383, 412-414. The painting does not appear in the catalogues of the Chiesa sales at the American Art Association in New York, as implied by Antonio Morassi, _Guardi: Antonio Francesco Guardi_, 2 vols., Venice [1973-1975]: 1:418. [2] Morassi [1973]: 418, inserted the Matthiesen Galleries, Berlin, 1930, into the provenance at this point; he was, however, the only source to include Matthiessen and cited no documentation. Kress records list only Contini Bonacossi, from whom the Foundation regularly acquired paintings in this period. [3] Notations in the Kress records (NGA curatorial files), give the date of acquisition as 1932. Roberto Longhi's expert opinion on the back of a Kress photograph (NGA curatorial files) is dated November 1932. Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Eighteenth Century Venice in a New York Collection", _The Fine Arts_ 19 (1932): 10, repro. 9, documents the painting in the Kress Collection by December of that year. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2441.