Michele Tosini, called Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio

With Wengraf, Vienna, by 1937 (as by Francesco Salviati);

Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Phillips, 15 December 1998, lot 63 (as Studio of Francesco Salviati);

There acquired by the present owner.

P. Costamagna, ‘De l’idéal de beauté aux problèmes d’attribution. Vingt ans de recherche sur le portrait florentin au XVIème siècle’, in Studiolo, 1, 2002, pp. 211-212, fig. 26;

P. Costamagna, in Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, Ottawa 2005, (D. Franklin ed.), pp. 318-9, no. 116;

G. Brouhot, in Florence. Portraits à la cour des Médicis, exh. cat. Paris 2015, (C. Falciani ed.), pp. 140-141, no. 26.