 Upon Leonardo's death in 1519 his unfinished works, drawings and notebooks were inherited by Francesco Melzi, Leonardo's friend and protégé.The documents of the Melzi d'Eril family, who own Francesco's still existing Villa Melzi in Vaprio d'Adda, don't however have a record of this wax sculpture.According to an exhibition press release from the 90s, the Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886–1960) collection in Rome had recorded the beeswax sculpture as previously owned by a member of the Melzi di Cusano family in Milan.