The Abduction of Ganymede

Count Charles-André-Melchior de Proli, Antwerp (1723–1786);<br>His sale, Antwerp, Grange, 23 July 1785 ff., lot 6 (sold together with lot 5, an oil sketch for Saturn devouring his children) for 61 florins to De Roose, Brussels (mistaken for ‘De Loose’ in Rooses, see Literature, below);<br>François Pauwels (d. 1803), Aachen and Brussels;<br>His posthumous sale, Brussels, De Marneffe, 22 August 1803, lot 67 (as pendant to lot 66, oil sketch for Saturn devouring his children), for 140 florins (unsold according to McGrath, 2016);<br>Pauwels (perhaps the son of the above, as speculated by McGrath; see McGrath 2016) sale, Brussels, 25 August 1814, lot 14;<br>Count F. de Robiano, Brussels;<br>His sale on the premises, 1 May 1837 ff., lot 560.<br>With Frederick Mont, New York, by 1980;<br>Private collection, Lugano (whence offered anonymously, London, Sotheby's, 6 July 1994, lot 43, unsold);<br>By whom sold (‘Property from a Private Collection’), London, Sotheby's, 5 December 2007, lot 18;<br>Where acquired by Sir Peter Jonas (1946–2020);**<br>His sale, Sotheby’s, London, 8 December 2021, lot 5;<br>Where acquired by Princeton University Art Museum