 The book is known to have been rebound at the turn of the 18th and 19th century.The modern provenance of the drawing is known only from 1955 and is documented only from 1998.According to a lawsuit brought by Jeanne Marchig against Christie's after the drawing's re-attribution to Leonardo, the drawing belonged to her husband Giannino Marchig, an art restorer, when they married in 1955.