Provenance:
Baron Alfred de Rothschild, Paris;
With Durlacher Brothers, New York, by 1927;
From whom purchased by The Cleveland Museum of Art on 27 January 1927 [John Huntington Collection, acc. no. 27.488]

Exhibition:
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition, 1 June - 1 November 1933, no. 136;
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, 26 June - 4 October 1936, no. 169;
New York, Durlacher Brothers, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Jacopo Robusti, Il Tintoretto, 1519-1594, 20 February - 18 March 1939, no. 7;
Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Old Masters, 1946;
Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery Association; Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Great Masters of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600, 4 October - 15 December 1953, no. 31;
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Venetian Tradition, 1956, no. 47

Literature:
Art Digest, 1 April 1927, p. 10;
American Magazine of Art, vol. 18, 1927, reproduced p. 207
W. M. Milliken "Madonna and Child by Jacopo Tintoretto in the John Huntington Collection," in The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 14, 1927, pp. 31-33, reproduced p. 29;
W. M. Milliken, "A Tintoretto for Cleveland," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 51, 1927, p. 55, reproduced;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, London 1932, p. 558; The Connoisseur, vol. 103, 1939, p. 216;
A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, vol. IX, Milan 1901-1940, p. 684, reproduced fig. 486;
A. McComb, "A Tintoretto discovered in Minneapolis," in International Studio, vol. 98, 1931, p. 37, reproduced fig. 1;
L. Venturi, Italian Paintings in America, vol. III, New York 1933, reproduced pl. 533.
W. M. Milliken, "World Art at Cleveland," in American Magazine of Art, vol. 29, 1936, p. 432;
M. Breuning, Magazine of Art, vol. 32, part I, 1939, pp. 98-99, reproduced p. 432; E. von Bercken, Die Gemälde des Jacopo Tintoretto, Munich 1942, no. 66, p. 107, reproduced p. 150;
A. Frankfurter, "Venice, or, The Fluent Brush," in Art News, vol. LV, 1956, reproduced p. 34;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. The Venetian School, London 1957, vol. I, p. 171;
P. de Vecchi, L'opera completa de Tintoretto, Milan 1970, no. 198; B. B. Fredericksen & F. Zeri, Census of the Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge 1972, pp. 199, 338, 573;
R. Pallucchini & P. Rossi, Tintoretto, le opera sacre et profane, vol. II, Milan 1982, part 1, no. 308, p. 195; part II, no. 308, p. 195;
A. Chong, European & American Painting in The Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue, Cleveland 1993, p. 238, reproduced;
Museo Nacional del Prado, Proceedings of the International Symposium, Jacopo Tintoretto, Supplemental List 2: other Paintings from the Tintoretto Studio ca. 1550-1594, Madrid 2007, p. 143.