It is housed in the Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti, Florence, central Italy.

The work is remembered by Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari as property of a Bolognese nobleman, Vincenzo Ercolani.

In Florence since as early as 1589, it was ceded to Francesco I de' Medici and was placed at the Uffizi.

In 1799 it was robbed by the French, who kept it in Paris until returning it back in 1816[citation needed].

The work was once considered to be by the hand of Giulio Romano, with Raphael providing only the drawing.