Known since 1859 this painting has undergone both changes of attribution and three restorations which have been recorded in old photographs. It was attributed to Titian by its first recorded owner, Lord Northwick, who also owned Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia, later acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and a Titianesque Venus and Cupid which was acquired at Lord Northwick’s sale in 1859 by the 4th Marquess of Hertford, whose collection was later to be known as the Wallace Collection.

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