English: The painting was transported from artist's studio in Paris to Warsaw in 1781. Archival data tell us that owing to its large size the canvas was for some time kept in the workshop of Mateusz Tokarski, conservator and custodian of the Stanislas Augustus Poniatowski Gallery. Subsequently, it was transferred to the studio of Franciszek Smuglewicz at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. In 1799, immediately after Wilanów was taken over by Aleksandra and Stanisław Kostka Potocki from Izabela Lubomirska, David’s work found itself in the palace, where it remained until 1939. During the German occupation the portrait was taken to Germany and then, together with other wartime loot, it was kept in the Soviet Union; in 1956 it returned to Poland.