The Tommaso and Maria Portinari panels were sold, with an attribution to Dieric Bouts, in 1870 for 6,000 francs. They were acquired in Rome c.1900 by , then in 1901 passed through the hands of Thomas Agnew &amp; Sons in London and to Léopold Goldschmidt in Paris. They were included in the important "Primitifs flamands" exhibition in Bruges in 1902. In 1910 the panels was sold by Kleinberger to Benjamin Altman for $426,500; he left them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on his death in 1913.