Provenance:

• Said to have been presented by Louis XI (the sitter) to his maître d'hôtel, Rigauld d'Aurel (or Aureille), Seigneur and Baron de Villeneuve (1455-1517), Château de Villeneuve-Lembron (Puy de-Dôme), Auvergne;
• By descent to his son, Maximilien d'Aureille (d. 1572);
• By descent to N*** d'Aureille and sold along with the Château de Villeneuve-Lembron to
• Isaac Dufour (d. 1655), treasurer of France;
• By descent to his son Lieutenant-General David Dufour (d. c. 1716);
• By descent to his son Jean Dufour (d. 1753);
• By descent to his son Jean-François Dufour de Villeneuve (d. 1781);
• By descent to his son Jean-Baptiste Claude Dufour de Villeneuve who dies without issue November 1797;
• By descent to his sister Catherine-Elisabeth Dufour de Villeneuve (d. 1814) who married Michel Pellissier de Féligonde;
• By descent to their son Michel Pellissier de Féligonde, deputé du Puy-du-Dôme;
• By descent to his 2nd son Jacques-Michel Pellissier de Féligonde, advisor to the Court at Riom (this and all the above according to inscription on the reverse of the backing panel; see transcription, below);
• Passion collection;
• With Wildenstein, from circa 1935 until at least 1963;
• Private collection.
• Auction: Sotheby's, London, 4 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2555, Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale, lot 9.

• New York, World's Fair (Pavillon de la France), Five Centuries of History Mirrored in Five Centuries of French Art, 1939, no. 36 (as Jean Fouquet);
• New York, Wildenstein, The Great Tradition of French Painting, June - October 1939, no. 4;
• New York, Wildenstein, Fashion in Headdress, 27 April - 27 May 1943, no. 4;
• New York, Wildenstein, French Art Benefit for American Aid to France, December 1946;
• Denver, The Denver Art Museum, Art of the Middle Ages, 10 December 1950 - 11 February 1951;
• São Paulo, Museo de Arte, O retrato na França, January 1952, no. 1;
• Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Six Centuries of Headdress, 3 April - 1 May 1955, no. 1;
• New York, Wildenstein, The Painter as Historian, 15 November - 31 December 1962, no. 22.