The present bust is first recorded in the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Peretti Montalto (1571-1623) in his villa in Rome. This sumptuous villa was built by Pope Sixtus V. (d. 1590), but its immense art collection mostly assembled by the Cardinal, the Pope’s great-nephew. An album of drawings, created in the 1630s and currently in a private collection, illustrates 275 sculptures of the Montalto collection. The present bust appears on folio 40 of this album. Other sculptures from the Montalto collection documented in this album and sold at Sotheby’s London include a seated statue of Apollo, sold June 12th, 2017, no. 19, and a head of Herakles, sold July 2nd, 2019, no. 239.