Marcello Venusti

Royal collection, Spain (according to the 1841 sale catalogue below);

Manuel de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria Rios (1767-1851), Prince of the Peace, Duke of Alcudia, Duke of Sueca, Baron of Mascalbó; 

Carlo Ludovico di Borbóne-Parma (1799-1883), King of Erutria, Duke of Lucca, and Duke of Parma;

His sale, London, Phillips, 5 June 1841, lot 45;

Where acquired by Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice (1780-1863), 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Wiltshire;

Thence by descent in the family;

Anonymous sale ("Property of a Lady"), London, Christie's, 1 November 1968, lot 77 (as M. Venusti);

Where acquired by Rogers;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 22 April 2004, lot 53 (as Attributed to Venusti);

Where acquired by the present collector.

A. Jameson, "The Collection of the Marquess of Lansdowne," in Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London, London 1844, p. 313, cat. no. 61;

G.F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London 1854, vol. II, p. 151;

Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to The Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G. at Lansdowne House, London and Bowood, Wilts, London 1897 pp. 122 and 123, cat. no. 72.

This work will be included in Andrea Donati's forthcoming publication, Marcello Venusti e Michelangelo Buonarroti: la riforma dell'arte sacra nell'età del Concilio di Trento, Catalogo ragionato, regesti documentari, inventari collezionistici, bibliografia.