Attributed to Ulrich Apt the Elder

Bischhoff collection, August 1825 (according to a label on the verso);

Ralph Harman Booth (1873-1931), Grosse Point, Michigan, by 1921;

Thence by inheritance to his widow, M. Mary Batterman Booth (1879-1951), Grosse Point, Michigan;

Thence by descent to the present collectors.

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, on long-term loan, 1921-1923;

New York, Kleinberger Galleries, Loan Exhibition of German Primitives for the Benefit of the Red Cross, 3 November - 30 November 1928, no. 47 (as Ambrosius Holbein, Portrait of Lucas Cranach).

W.R. Valentiner, "Ralph H. Booth Loan Collection," in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 4, no. 6 (1923), pp. 51-52, reproduced p. 52 (as Ambrosius Holbein);

R. Poland, "Art in Detroit Homes," in Art and Archaeology 17, no. 3 (March 1924), reproduced p. 108 (as Ambrosius Holbein);

Loan Exhibition of German Primitives for the Benefit of the Red Cross, exhibition catalogue, New York 1928, p. 32, cat. no. 47, reproduced (as Ambrosius Holbein, Portrait of Lucas Cranach);

C. L. Kuhn, A catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge 1936, p. 60, cat. no. 238, reproduced pl. 45 (as Swabian School).