 The work is mentioned in documents several times between Titi and 1835, when Passavant records that it had been sold in 1796 to the Roman art dealer Doppieri for 300 scudi and subsequently to Joseph Fesch, uncle of Napoleon I, for 3000 or 4000 scudi.It was taken to Paris but returned to Rome in 1845 to be auctioned with the rest of the Fesch collection.At that auction it was acquired by its present owner for around 70,000 lire.