The sheet appeared on the market for the first time in a Finarte sale of drawings (1) where it was presented as a preparatory study for the leg of David at the Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam. It was then republished by Luisa Mortari in the 1995 monograph on the painter (2)

(1) Finarte, drawing auction, 11/30/1982, lot. 19 illustrated
(2) Bernardo Strozzi, Rome 1995, page 226, no. 14

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