Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Probably Juan de Dios Gómez de Silva y Mendoza (1672-1773), 6^th Duke of Pastrana and 10^th Duke of Infantado, among the many sketches and thirty-six paintings depicting mythological fables by Rubens in his posthumous inventory of 1 September 1737;

Presumably thence by descent and among the thirty-six sketches in the 1737 inventory and the forty-five sketches in the 1773 inventory;

George Augustus ("Giorgio Augusto") Wallis (1770-1847), Florence, and probably acquired by him in Spain, circa 1807-1813;

His estate sale, Berlin, Heberle, 24 May 1895, lot 86;

Where acquired by a private collector;

Thence by descent to his granddaughter, Hope Taylor, by whom anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2000, lot 50;

Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.

M.J. Friedländer, "Versteigerung der Gemäldesammlung von Giorgio Augusto Wallis, etc.," in Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 18 (1895), p. 241;

M. Jaffé, "Esquisses inédites de Rubens pour La Torre della Parada," in La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 14, no. 6 (1964), pp. 313-322;

S. Alpers, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part IX, The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada, New York and London 1971, pp. 199-200, cat. no. 16a, reproduced fig. 93;

J.S. Held, The Oil Sketches of Peter Paul Rubens, A Critical Catalogue, Princeton 1980, vol. I, pp. 269-270, cat. no. 183;

M. Jaffé, Rubens, Catalogo completo, Milan 1989, p. 356, cat. no. 1257;

P.C. Sutton, in Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens, exhibition catalogue, P.C. Sutton and M.E. Wieseman (eds.), New Haven and London 2004, pp. 236-239, cat. no. 36, reproduced;

A.K. Wheelock, Jr., in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 55-57, 167-168, cat. no. 10, reproduced.

Greenwich, Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Cincinnati Art Museum, Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens, 2 October 2004 - 11 September 2005, no. 36;

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 10.