File:Louis XI (1423-1483).jpg
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- 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 July 2012, 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.
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