Brought from Spain by a Birmingham merchant, Mr. George Hadley, who purchased it from a monastery for 1,000gns. during the Peninsular War.
Mr. Dunbar, and by descent to Mr. Manners.
R.W. Billings; (+) sale, Christie's, 3 June 1876, lot 28 (1250gns. to W.H. Smith).
The Rt. Hon. William Smith M.P., Greenlands, Henley-on-Thames, 1883.
Anon. Sale, Christie's, 3 March 1972, lot 10.
C.B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo, London and New York, 1883, p. 156, no. 102.
D.A. Iñignez, Murillo, Madrid, 1981, II, p. 162, no. 167.
London, Royal Academy, Works of Art by the Old Masters, Jan.- March, 1871.
专家说明
The prototype by Murillo, datable to circa 1660, was sold at Sotheby's, 5 July 1989, lot 99.
