Provenance
by 1598
Possibly Prince Elector Maximilian I, 1573 - 1651
Source: possibly the painting listed in "Inventari und Beschreibung der Kunststuckh und Contrafet, auf Irer F. Dht. Galeria, so alle der F. Kunst Cammer einverleibt und incorpoirirt," see Diemer 1980.
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Possibly Lumley Family
Source: Waterhouse, Notebooks, vol. 29, p. 32 (22 December 1948).
by 1948 -
Spink & Son, Ltd. (London, England), sold to Robert Bland Bird.
Source: Waterhouse, Notebooks, vol. 29, p. 32 (22 December 1948).
by 1952 - 1960
Sir Robert Bland Bird, second Bart., British, 1876 - 1960 (London, England, The White House, Solihull, Warwickshire, England), by inheritance to his only child, Pamela Stephanie Helen Bird, 1960.
Source: Waterhouse, Notebooks, vol. 32, p. 211-212 (14 May 1952): "A good thing."
1960 -
Pamela Stephanie Helen Bird, viscountess de Mauduit (Paris, France)
Source: Getty Provenance Index, Collector's Files and Manchester, 1961, exhibition catalogue.
by 1963
Dr. Otto Wertheimer (Paris, France), sold to Max Schmidheiny, 1963.
Source: Letter from Hall & Knight, Ltd., 13 June 2003.
1963 - 1991
Dr. h. c. Max Schmidheiny, 1908 - 1991 (Zürich, Switzerland), by inheritance to his son, Thomas Schmidheiny, 1991.
1991 - 2003
Dr. Thomas Schmidheiny (Zürich, Switzerland), sold through Hall & Knight, Ltd., (London, England) to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003.