Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 11 January 1979, lot 45; With Colnaghi, London; Private collection, London, by 1981; Anonymous sale, Milan, Christie's, 22 May 2007, lot 47, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
N. Spinosa in Sebastiano Conca (1680 - 1764), exh. cat., Gaeta 1981, p. 82, reproduced fig. 9; N. Spinosa, Pittura napolitana del Settecento, dal Rococò al Classicismo, Naples 1987, p. 97, cat. no. 83, reproduced p. 226, fig. 103; N. Spinosa, Gaspare Traversi, napoletani del '700 tra miseria e nobilità , exh. cat., Naples 2003 - 2004, p. 227, cat. no. R18.