Descamps-Scrive de Lille collection. (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris); sold to Meyer Goodfriend, New York;[1] (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 4 January 1923, no. 71); purchased by A.A. Aron, New York; sold 5 January 1923 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[2] sold before 1941 to R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York;[3] gift 1949 to NGA. [1] According to Goodfriend sales catalogue of 4 January 1923. [2] According to the Getty Provenance Index, citing Knoedler's records, Aron sold the painting to Knoedler's on the day following the American Art Association's Goodfriend sale. It is possible he purchased the painting on Knoedler's behalf; press reports and annotated sales catalogue list Knoedler as the purchaser. [3] Gallatin owned the painting by 1941 when he made the initial offer of his collection to the National Gallery of Art, which was accepted on an "if and when" basis; see NGA curatorial files.