c.1574
29.4 × 42.8 cm (11 9/16 × 16 13/16 in.)
Nicholas Lanier (Lugt 2885, Lugt 4699?), London. Sir Peter Lely (Lugt 2094), London. Eugène Rodrigues (Lugt 897), Paris; through [Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 28-29 1928, lot 251]. Josef Mantler, Stockerau, Austria, sold through [Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, May 31 2002, lot 5480]. [Arturo Cuéllar and Corinne Nathan, Zürich, Switzerland (Lugt 3439)]. [Christie's, London, July 5 2017, lot 12] sold; to [W. Mark Brady, New York, 2017], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022
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