One of a group of 105 drawings formerly bound in an album entitled Vedute di Toscana di Jacopo Ligozzi, of which a number of sheets were signed by Cantagallina and some dated around 1614. The album was broken up after the Hodgsons sale in 1954.
A sheet presumably from that album was exhibited in the Palazzo Strozzi in 1987, M. Chiarini in Il Seicento Fiorentino, exhib. cat., Florence, 1987, no. 2.130, illustrated. Other sheets of similar size and handling were sold at Christie's, London, 1 July 1986, lot 77, and 5 July 1994, lot 34, illustrated.
According to Richard Krautheimer's notes, the villa was identified by Matthias Quast in a letter dated February 1989. It is situated near the via di Camerata, just outside Florence, not far from the Villa di Camerata. Until 1748 Villa Fontallerta was the property of the Gaddi family, G.C. Lensi Orlando Cardini, Le ville di Firenze di qua d'Arno, Florence, 1965.