Circle of Giovanni Agostino Cassana

Said to have been brought from Spain in the early 19th century by a member of the Urquhart family and ancestor of the subsequent owner, Mrs. Odell (according to the 1913 exhibition catalogue);

Mrs. Odell, London, by 1913;

By whom sold ("The Property of Mrs. Odell, of Kilchagh Park, Co. Westmeath"), London, Sotheby's, 26 June 1923, lot 203 (as "Murillo");

Count Contini Bonacossi, Florence;

Thereafter acquired by Stanley Moss.

London, Grafton Galleries, October 1913 - January 1914, no. 5 (lent by Mrs. Odell).

Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition of Spanish old masters in support of National Gallery funds and for the benefit of the Sociedad de Amigos del Arte Española, exhibition catalogue, London 1913, p. 92, cat. no. 5, reproduced pl. II (as "Murillo"; bearing "what appears to be the signature of Murillo") ;

T. Borenius, “Two Still-Life Pictures by Murillo (?)," in Burlington Magazine 24, no. 128 (November 1913), pp. 74-75, reproduced fig. A (as possibly Murillo);

R.B. Simon, Visions and Vistas: Old Master Paintings and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, New York 2000, pp. 83-84, reproduced (as Anton Maria Vassallo).