Mr. and Mrs. Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis, in 1906; {1} given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1953 (1953.5) {2}

{1}According to a typescript, presumably presented to the IMA by Tarkington, the Tarkingtons purchased the fresco from a silversmith's shop in Rome on the Via Sistina in 1906, see IMA Historical File (53.5) {2}Although the work was thought to be a 15th or 16th century Italian fresco upon accession, it is now considered to be a modern forgery by an artist discussed by Federico Zeri, "Il falsario in calcinaccio," Quaderni di Emblema: Diari di Lavoro, Bergamo, 1971, pp. 81-91.