Restored: 1991, Kemal Selmanović.
Provenance: Dr. Izidor Cankar, art historian and Yugoslav ambassador to Argentina, bought this as a painting by Daniele Crespi in the “Galleria de Don Lorenzo Pellerano” in Buenos Aires on 27 April 1937, Cat. No. 638. – On the back of the frame is a label with the number 638 and the stamp: Guerrico & Williams / …Pellerano. – Lent to the Government of Slovenia in 1978 for Brdo Castle near Kranj. – Purchased by the Narodna galerija in January 1992.
Exhibitions: 1960, Ljubljana, No. 29; 1991, Lugano, Villa Malpensata, Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, No. 29; 1993, Ljubljana, No. 36.
Lit.: Cevc 1960, p. 23, Cat. No. 29, Fig. 17 (Venetian painter, 17C); Gamulin 1964, pp. 173–175, Fig. 99; Rizzi 1970, p. 234; Bianchi and Soldini 1991, p. 164, Cat. No. 29, Fig. on p. 165 (F. Bianchi and S. Soldini attributed the painting to Petrini as a work of second half of the twenties or early thirties of 18th century); Zeri and Rozman 1993, p. 155, Cat. No. 36, Fig. 37 and on the front cover; Lipoglavšek 1999, pp. 421–432, Fig. 432.