History
Legend has it that at one time the panel, split in two, was used to cover casks in Pescia. Once found, they were said to be expertly joined. There is also a different version where the panel was split into three pieces to make a screen, which was made whole again.
By the later part of the 16th century, it had been in the Chateauneuf Collection, Paris and descended to his heir, Marquis de la Vallière. In 1620 the painting was owned by Marquis de la Vallière, Secretary of State, as part of the La Valière Collection in Paris. In 1713, Prince Louis Alexander de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse, owned the painting and from him passed in 1728 into the collection of Prince de Carignano.
From at least 1728 to 1743 is was in the possession of Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignan. After he died, the painting fell to his son Luigi di Carignano and painter Rigauld mediated the sale in 1742 dispersed to Louis XV in 1743.
The last Raphael painting to enter the French Royal Collection, it was acquired from the Prince of Carignano in 1742 dispersed to Louis XV in 1743.
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