Don Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzmán, Marqués del Carpio y Helice, viceroy of Naples (died 1687), Naples [his monogram, DGH. / li67 surmounted by a crown (initials in ligature), is painted on the reverse of the painting; see Civai 1990, pp. 62–64]; his estate, 1687–1704, [Civai 1990 suggests that the painting is the “ritratto di donna veneziana palmi 6 e 4 di Paol Veroniese” recorded in the 1692 inventory of Guzmán’s collection as no. 328]; Florentine creditors of Don Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán, by 1704, from whom presumably acquired by the Martelli family, Florence, inventories of 1712, 1771, and 1802–13 [see Civai 1990]; by descent to the brothers Niccolò, Carlo, and Ugolino Martelli, Florence [according to Civai 1990 who documents the painting in Martelli possession through an old photograph]; sold by them to Albert Harnish, 1910 [according to Civai 1990]. Mrs. Henry Osborne Havemeyer (died 1929); sold in her sale, American Art Association, New York, April 10, 1930, no. 104 (ill.), for $800, to Metropolitan Gallery, New York [price according to annotated sale catalogue in the Ryerson Library, Art Institute; buyer given in annotated sale catalogue at Knoedler, New York, according to a letter from Melissa De Medeiros to Mary Kuzniar dated April 14, 1991 in curatorial file]. Sold American Art Association, New York, 6 May 1937, lot 98, for $150 to Chester Dale; given to the Art Institute, 1946.