Alessandro Tanari, Bologna (dead 1639); by descent to his son Nicola Giovanni Tanari; in the inventory of the collection of Alessandro Tanari, May 1640, c.59r, “Alessandro Magno che parte dalla sua donna la mattina per tempo” & c.63v, “Un Istoria d’Alessandro Magno quando vuole fare partita di mano di Ludovico Carazzi Ducatoni 500”; in the collection of the Stanhope Family at Revesby Abbey, Boston, Lincolnshire (?); inherited to the Lady Beryl Franziska Kathleen Bianca Le Poer Trench, wife of Richard Philip Stanhope, Revesby Abbey, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1916 (?); and her sale at Christie, Manson and Woods, 8 February 1918, London, lot 123, as “L. Carracci, the Family of Darius”; acquired by a certain Markey; Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Fujimoto Bill Broker Bank, Osaka, 1927; 1st Matsukata sale, Tokyo, 13-30 March 1928, lot 182, repr.; 6th Matsukata sale, Osaka, 19-27 May 1934, lot 16, repr.; 11th Matsukata sale, 13-17 April 1940, lot 12, repr.; Minami Gallery, Tokyo [see annotation on the mount of the photograph in NWMA curatorial file]; private collection, Japan; deposited to NMWA, 2010; donated to NMWA, 8 October 2019.