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Commissioned in 1621 by Giovanni Antonio Sauli, Genoa By descent and inheritance in the family Thomas P. Grange, London, by 1975 By whom sold in 1977 to Richard L. Feigen By whom sold on 2 October 1998 to a family trust sold at Sothebys, New York, 28 January 2016, lot 41
Exhibition history
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14 February - 12 May 2002, no. 36;
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Orazio Gentileschi in Genoa: Paintings for the Palazzo Sauli, 1 October, 2002- 12 January, 2003;
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, 28 May - 12 September, 2010, no. 47;
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan, 2013-2015.
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