The Italian art collector Alessandro Foresi saw the bust, recognized it as a work by Bastianini and offered 500 francs for it. Freppa declined the offer, and instead sold it to the French collector Louis-Félix de Nolivos for 700 francs. It was at the de Nolivos sale that the price eventually sky-rocketed to the incredible 14,000 francs. Repeating a pattern for every piece of early Re­nais­sance sculpture from the hands of Bastianini which during the mid-Nineteenth Century entered museums in Europe and the United States.