Purchased from the artist by Léonce Rosenberg [1879-1947], Paris;[1] sold possibly May 1928 to (Valentine Dudensing, New York), but definitely by 1 June 1928;[2] purchased 2 February 1929 by Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[3] bequest 1963 to NGA. [1] Fonds de Léonce Rosenberg, Bibliotheque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris: archive no. 884076, photo no. 928. See Giorgia Chierici, "Giorgio de Chirico and America: The Artist's First Solo Show at the Valentine Gallery in New York," _Metaphysical Art_ 19/20 (2020): 125. [2] The painting was number 160 in a 1928 Valentine Gallery inventory of that date, as well as subsequent inventories ("La conversation 800 dollars"); it was number 8840 on the receipt documenting twelve paintings sold by Rosenberg to Dudensing. See Chierici, 123, 124 n. 45, 125. [3] Per Valentine Gallery sales records, 1926-1944, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Chierici, 120 n. 32, 125. See also Dale collection records in NGA curatorial files.