Gaspar van Wittel, called Vanvitelli

Commissioned by Don Luis Francisco de la Cerda Fernández de Córdova Folch de Cardona y Aragón (1660–1711), 9th Duke of Medinaceli, in circa 1700;

Thence probably by descent to his nephew Don Nicolás Fernández de Córdoba y de la Cerda (1682–1739), 10th Duke of Medinaceli, listed in his palace in Priego, Cordoba, by 1711;

Thence by descent to the Duchess of Uceda (according to labels on the reverse);

Anonymous sale, Caja Madrid, Madrid, in 2011;

With Coll & Cortés, Madrid in 2011;

Acquired by private treaty through Replica Shoes ’s in 2011;

From whom acquired by private treaty through Replica Shoes ’s in 2016 for the present collection.

Probably Inventario general de todos los trastos y vienes muebles pertenecientes a la Cassa del Exmo. Sr. Marques [de Priego] Duque de Medinazeli, mi Señor, MS, Archivio Ducal de Medinaceli, Seville 1711, no. 199 (‘Pais y Rio de largo de dos varas no. 419... 2,200 rs’);

Probably V. Lleó Cañal, ‘The art collection of the ninth Duke of Medinaceli’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXXXI, no. 1031, February 1989, p. 115, no. 199;

L. Laureati, in Palazzo Colonna: Appartamento Principessa Isabelle: Catalogo dei dipinti, M. Natale (ed.), Rome 2019, p. 184, under no. 67.