The painting's provenance only goes back to a sale in The Hague in 1770; after further Dutch sales it was bought by the Franco-Swiss banker and collector the Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier in 1822.
Helene Violette de Talleyrand (1915–2003) who married James Robert de Pourtales on March 29, 1937 in Val Saint-Germain, she then divorced in 1969, and married Gaston Palewski (1901–1984), the Minister of Scientific Research and Atomic and Space Questions from 1962 to 1966.
Jean de Pourtales (born August 19, 1965) is a French racing driver from Neuilly-sur-Seine.