According to Sandra di Provvido the attribution was first made by Wilhelm von Bode and it has never been doubted. A note in the archives at I Tatti records that Berenson saw the picture in the spring of 1920 and its exclusion from his 1957 lists must have been due to the fact that, as he wrote in the preface, only those 'homeless' paintings were included which could also be adequately reproduced. As Di Provvido suggests, the panel probably originally formed the cimasa of an altarpiece