Reverend William John Brodrick, 7th Viscount Midleton (1798-1870), Surrey, England; his sale, July 31, 1851, Christie's London, lot 3 [as a work by Caravaggio, the sitter identified as author Michelangelo Bamboccia]; William Benoni White (d. 1878), London?; his sale, May 23 1879, Christie's London, lot 45 [as a work by Caravaggio, the sitter identified as author Michelangelo Bamboccia]; S. H. Fraser, Sunderland, England; his sale, May 7, 1904, Christie's London, lot 40 [here given to Italian School, sitter unidentified]; Thomas D. Harris, Edinburgh, Scotland [label on back of stretcher gives work to Spanish School? and suggests the work is a self-portrait]; Thomas Agnew & Sons, London (dealer), April 1958; purchased from them by E. A. Martin, London, June 21, 1960; Wildenstein & Co., New York (dealers); purchased from them by the Gallery in 1977

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This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• The Seventeenth Century: Pictures by European Masters 6/21/1960 - 6/23/1960
• Masterpieces for Rochester: Acquisitions Since 1975 11/24/1978 - 1/7/1979
• Treasure House: Museums of the Empire State Roberson Museum and Science Center 7/1/1979 - 1/13/1980
• Baroque Portraiture in Italy: Works from North American Collections The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art 12/7/1984 - 5/20/1985
• The Renaissance Print: Art and Culture in Germany and the Low Countries Memorial Art Gallery 12/7/2001 - 3/3/2002

This object has the following bibliographic references:

• Article Scope: Reproduction only. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
• Article Title: Acquisitions. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 43, Issue Number: 4. Issue Date: November 1977.
• Art Journal. New York, New York: College Art Association of America
• Docent Newsletter. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
• The Art Gallery. Ivorytown, CT: Hollycroft Press
• Article Author: Williams, Gloria. Article Title: Pietro Paolini's "Portrait of a Man Holding Durer's 'Small Passion'". Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Porticus. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery Volume Number: 12/13 Issue Date: 1989-90. Page Number: 34-41, Figure Number: 1
• The Magazine Antiques. New York, NY: Straight Enterprises Inc.
• Treasure House: Museums of the Empire State. Binghamton, NY: Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences, 1979.
• Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
• Article Author: Nicolson, Ben. Article Title: Three Old Master Exhibitions. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. The Burlington Magazine. London, England: Burlington Magazine Volume Number: 102, Issue Number: 688. Issue Date: July 1960. Page Number: 337, Figure Number: 46
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. John T. Spike. Baroque Portraiture in Italy: Works from North American Collections. Sarasota, FL: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art , 1984.
• Article Author: Griffiths, Antony. Article Title: Notes: The Print as Subject. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Print Quarterly. London, England: Print Quarterly, Ltd. Volume Number: VII, Issue Number: 2. Issue Date: June 1990. Page Number: 182 - 184, Figure Number: 113
• Article Author: Fara, Giovanni Maria . Article Title: Il collezionismo delle opere di Albrecht Dürer in Italia.... Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Kristina Hermann Fiore. Durer e l'Italia. Milan, Italy: Electa, 2007. Page Number: 92-93, Figure Number: 6, p. 93
• Article Author: Ottani, Anna. Article Title: Per un caravaggesco toscano: Pietro Paolini (1603-1681). Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Arte Antica e Moderna. Volume Number: 21 Issue Date: January-March 1963. Page Number: 26, Figure Number: 10a
• Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Patrizia Giusti Maccari. Pietro Paolini, pittore lucchese, 1603-1681. Lucca, Italy: Maria Pacini Fazzi, 1987.
• Article Author: Sutton, Denys. Article Title: The Variety of Seventeenth-Century Paintings. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. The Connoisseur souvenir of the Antique Dealer's Fair and Exhibition. London, England: The Connoisseur Issue Date: 1960. Page Number: 52-55, Figure Number: 8
• Article Author: Marabotti, Alessandro Marabottini. Article Title: Il "Naturalismo" di Pietro Paolini. Article Scope: Mention. Scritta di Storia dell'Arte in Onore di Mario Salmi. Rome, Italy: de Luca Editore, 1961-1963. Volume Number: 3 Page Number: 315, n. 3
• Benedict Nicolson. The International Caravaggesque Movement. Oxford, England: Phaidon Press, Ltd., 1979.
• Richard E. Spear. Caravaggio and his Followers. New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers Inc., 1975.
• Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. The Seventeenth Century: Pictures by European Masters. London, England: Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., 1960.
• Article Title: Recent Acquisitions. Article Scope: Mention. Auckland City Art Gallery Quarterly. Auckland, NZ: Auckland City Art Gallery Issue Number: 18. Issue Date: 1961. Page Number: 4
• Storia dell' Arte.
• Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Laurinda S. Dixon. The Dark Side of Genius: The Melancholic Persona in Art, ca. 1500-1700. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013.
• Article Author: Smith, Jeffrey Chipps. Article Title: The Early Collecting of Durer's Prints. Article Scope: Discussion and reproduction. Evelin Wetter, ed. Prayer Nuts, Private Devotion, and Early Modern Art Collectting. Riggisberg, Switzerland: Abegg-Stiftung, 2017. Page Number: 140-141, 155, Figure Number: 50
• Article Author: Roodenburg, Herman. Article Title: The Body in Reformations. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Ulinka Rublack, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2017. Page Number: 647, Figure Number: 31.6

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