Provenance :

• ?Owen McSwiny, London (until d. 1754;
• his estate sale, Langford, London, February 28, 1755, no. 53, as "A Head of Lord Boyne, in Crayons, 3 qrs," by Rosalba);
• ?Nathaniel Clements, The Ranger's Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin (probably until d. 1777);
• his son, Robert Clements, later 1st Earl of Leitrim, The Ranger's Lodge (probably 1777–82; inv., 1782 or shortly before) and Killadoon, Celbridge, County Kildare (1782–d. 1804);
• Earls of Leitrim, Killadoon (from 1804; inv. 1856);
• by descent to Henry T. W. Clements, Killadoon (by 1957–d. 1974);
• his great-nephew, Charles Clements, Killadoon (1974–2002;
• on loan to J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2000–2001;
• sale, Sotheby's, New York, January 24, 2002, no. 54, to Sayn-Wittgenstein for The Met)

• New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe," May 17–August 14, 2011, no. 4.
• New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Eighteenth-Century Pastels," August 6–December 29, 2013, no catalogue.
• New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Eighteenth-Century Pastel Portraits," July 26–October 29, 2017, no catalogue.

• https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2002.22/ 
• identifiant Metropolitan Museum of Art : 438544 
• identifiant Artstor : 18707524 
• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History