After participating in the English Civil War, Hamilton was executed on 9 March 1649 and some of his possessions were taken to the Netherlands to be sold.
Recorded in Henrietta Maria's possession in 1649. The same year her husband Charles I was executed, on 30 January. The painting was included in an inventory of the Royal Collection,[n 19] valued at £30, and Charles's possessions were put up for sale under the English Commonwealth.
The painting was sold to a creditor in 1651
Returned to Charles II after the English Restoration in 1660, and included in an inventory of Charles's possessions at the Palace of Whitehall in 1666.
Sir Charles Herbert Sheffield, auctioned the painting in 1763.
It is probably the painting bought by the British collector Francis Cook in 1900 from J. C. Robinson. It was attributed to Bernardino Luini, a follower of Leonardo.
Sir Francis Cook, 4th Baronet, Cook's great-grandson, sold it at auction in 1958 for £45[58] as a work by Leonardo's pupil Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio,
At the St. Charles Gallery auction house in New Orleans, consigned from the estate of the Baton Rouge businessman Basil Clovis Hendry Sr.
From November 2011 through February 2012, the painting was exhibited at the National Gallery, London, as an autograph work by Leonardo, after authentication by that gallery.
The painting was stored at the Dallas Museum of Art for the remainder of 2012
May 2013, the Swiss dealer Yves Bouvier purchased the painting for just over US$75 million in a private sale brokered by Sotheby's, New York.
The painting was then sold to the Russian collector Dmitry Rybolovlev for US$127.5 million.
The painting was exhibited in Hong Kong, London, San Francisco, and New York in 2017, and then sold at auction at Christie's in New York on 15 November 2017 for $450,312,500
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