Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597-1679) (according to an inventory taken on 6 January 1627) [1]

Cardinal Francesco Barberini and his brother, Prince Taddeo Barberini (1603-1647), 1627-1640

Prince Maffeo Barberini (according to a posthumous inventory taken in 1686)

By descent through the Barberini family, until dispersal of Barberini collections in 1812-1816 [2]

Corsini, Florence

[P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, July 1966]

[Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, May 1968]

Acquired by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1974


[1] The painting belonged to a "Bastino Pasetti"
[2] Lavin, 1975.

1968, London. Colnaghi & Co., Inc. ”Paintings by Old Masters,” 7 - 24 May, no. 7.

1978-1979, Denver-New York-Minneapolis. ”Masterpieces of French Art: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,” Denver Art Museum, 26 December 1978 - 18 February 1979; New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., 14 March - 27 April 1979; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 24 May - 1 July 1979, no. 44.

1982, Paris-New York-Chicago. ”La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines,” Paris, Grand Palais, 29 January - 26 April. ”France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth Century French Painting in American Collections,” New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26 May - 22 August; The Art Institute of Chicago, 18 September - 28 November, no. 120, repr. on 71.

1990-1991, Paris. Grand Palais. ”Vouet,” 6 November 1990 - 11 February 1991.

J. A. F. Orbaan. Documenti sul barocco in Roma: Miscellanea della R. Società Romana di Storia Patria. Rome: Nella Sede della Società, 1920, p. 497.

Benedict Nicolson. Burlington Magazine (May 1968): 292.

Erich Schleier. ”Un chef d’œuvre de la période italienne de Simon Vouet.” Revue de l'Art, no. 11 (1971): pp. 70, 72, fig. 10, 73 (notes 44-46).

Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée and Jean Pierre Cuzin. Valentin et les caravagesques français. Grand Palais, 13 février-15 avril 1974. Paris: Éditions des musées nationaux, 1974, pp. 204, 255.

Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée and Jean Pierre Cuzin. I Caravaggeschi Francesi: Accademia Di Francia, Villa Medici, Roma, 15 Novembre 1973-20 Gennaio 1974. Roma: De Luca, 1973, pp. 198, 248.

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin. Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art. New York: New York University Press, 1975, pp. 13 (doc. 102): 44 (doc. 354b): 84 (Inv. 26-31.242): 99 (coppiere 27-40, no.1): 106 (Barb. Lat. 5635, fol. 58, no. 87): 533, 625.

Jean-Luc Bordeaux. ”Un musée français en Californie.” Connaissance des Arts, no. 299 (January 1977): pp. 36, 38.

Pierre Rosenberg. Pittura francese nelle collezioni pubbliche fiorentine. Florence: Palazzo Pitti, 1977, mentioned under no. 105.

Thomas P. Lee. ”Recently Acquired French Paintings: Reflections on the Past.” Apollo 111, no. 217 (March 1980): pp. 212-214, fig. 1.

Triptych (Summer 1980): p. 13, fig. 1.

Triptych (December 1982 - January 1983): repr. in color on the cover.

Christopher Wright. The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1985, pp. 220, 285.

Pierre Rosenberg and Marion C. Stewart. French Paintings 1500-1825: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987, pp. 97-100, repr.