Collections

• Marcelle Nicolle, attaché honoraire au musée du Louvre;
• Trotti et Cie, Paris;
• Hermann Heilbuth (1861-1945) Copenhagen 1920-1921;
• Nanna Rasmussen Lothe, (d.1957), Lake Forest, Illinois;
• Lothe sale, Parke-Bernet Galeries, New York, 19 April 1958, lot 311 (as French School, eighteenth century, portrait of a nobleman);
• Julius H Weitzner, by 1960;
• David Daniels, acquired from the above 1963;
• Daniels sale, Sotheby’s, New York,10 November 1993, lot 37;
• Jonathan Kagan, New York;
• Kagan sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 1997, lot 95;
• Private collection to 2019.

Exhibitions

• Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, on loan, 1920-21, (lent by Hermann Heilbuth);
• Storrs, The William Benton Museum of Art, The Academy of Europe: Rome in the 18th Century, 1973, no. 79 (as c.1748);
• Colnaghi, New York, Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787): A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, 1982, no. 12.

Literature

• Karl Madsen, Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Copenhagen, 1920, p.136, no. 79 (as by François-Hubert Drouais);
• Ernst Emmerling, Pompeo Batoni: Sein Leben und Werk, Darmstadt, 1932, pp.108-9, no. 62 (c.1768);
• Harald Olsen, Italian Paintings and Sculpture in Denmark, Copenhagen, 1961, p. 39;
• Anthony M Clark & Edgar Peters Bowron (ed.) Pompeo Batoni: A Complete Catalogue of His Works with an Introductory Text, London, 1985, p.251, no. 151, pl. 143;
• Sergio Benedetti, ‘Pier Leone Ghezzi, il giovane Reynolds e I primi ‘milordi’ di Pompeo Batoni’, in ed. Liliana Barroero, Intorno a Batoni, Lucca, 2009, pp.40-48;
• Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, A complete catalogue of his paintings, 2016, vol. I, pp. 166-168, cat. No 143.