Michelangelo Buonarroti

Harry Oppenheimer, Johannesburg;

By whom sold, Christie's London, July 15, 1936;

Christie's London, May 21, 1977, lot 82;

Butterfield and Butterfield, San Francisco, June 13, 1990, Lot 1925;

Private collection, California;

By whom sold, Sotheby's New York, 26 January 2007, lot 242;

Where acquired by the present owner

Michelangelo's marble statue of Dawn was executed between 1524 and 1531 for the sarcophagus below the effigy of Lorenzo de' Medici in the Medici Chapel in S. Lorenzo, Florence.