English: Commissioned 1577 by Don Diego de Castilla for the convent church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo, Toledo;
installed with other paintings in the main retable by September 1579;
sold c. 1830 to the Infante Don Sebastiàn Gabriel de Borbón y Braganza (died 1875), Madrid and later Pau, France, but confiscated from him by the Spanish government and installed in the Museo Nacional de la Trinidad, Madrid, in 1835 [Lavice 1864 recorded that the Assumption was on display in the Museo Nacional de Pinturas, but this cannot be confirmed];
returned to Don Sebastiàn in 1861;
his estate in custody of the Spanish government, 1875-87 [see María Teresa Baratech Zelama, "La testamentario del Infante Don Sebastiàn Gabriel de Borbón y Braganza," Archivo español de arte 62 (1989), pp. 372-77 for the status of his estate];
his widow, the Infanta María Cristina de Borbón (died 1902), Aranjuez and Madrid;
offered for sale, Madrid, October 1902, no. 2, but bought in, then lent by the Infanta's heirs to the Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1902-04 [see Cossío 1908, p. 594, no. 279];
purchased from them by Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, for 100,000 frs. ($17,000), October 1904, with funds provided by Henry O. Havemeyer, New York [see Havemeyer 1961, p. 155];
sold to the Art Institute, July 17, 1906.

English: Pau, Salons de l'ancien Asile de Pau, Tableaux appartenant aux héritiers de feu Msg. l'Enfant don Sébastien de Bourbon et Bragance, 1876, no. 668.
Madrid, Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura, Exposición de las obras de Domenico Thetocopuli, llamado El Greco, 1902, no. 6.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 169, pl. 25.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 70.

English: Inscribed on paper at lower right in Greek: (Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Cretan, displayed this in 1577)