How does this artwork elucidate its Provenance?
The work was once in the collection of the Empress Josephine at Malmaison (as a work of Bellini) and later in that of her son Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy. From 1843 to 1904 it was part of the Duke of Leuchtenberg’s collection at Munich and St Petersburg and was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in 1907. The painting suffered during the transfer from panel to canvas and may have also been reduced in size.
Eugène de Beauharnais Duke of Leuchtenberg Malmaison Empress Josephine