Focus on Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter and explore the Provenance.
It belonged to the Pesaro family until the early 17th century, and was presumably first hung in Pesaro's home. Anthony van Dyck made a drawing of it in Venice in 1623, the earliest documentation for the work. It is recorded as having been in the collection of Charles I of England, from which it was bought in 1652 for the Spanish royal collection after his execution, which loaned it to the convent of San Pasquale in Madrid. In 1823, it was in the collection of William I of the Netherlands, who gave it to the museum.
Anthony van Dyck Spanish royal collection William I of the Netherlands Charles I of England