Sold February 1872 by Courbet to Paul Durand-Ruel; (Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris).[1] Emile de Girardin [1806-1881], Paris; (his estate sale, Paris, 24 May 1883, no. 8, as _La Grotte_). (Stephen Higgins, Paris); sold 28 December 1956 to (Germain Seligmann/Gersel Corp., New York); (Jacques Seligmann & Company, New York);[2] sold 1957 to Brigadier General Charles Lionel Lindemann, Washington, D.C.; gift 1957 to NGA. [1] According to Georges Riat, _Gustave Courbet, peintre_, Paris, 1906: 330, repro. 331. Durand-Ruel is also included in précis from Jacques Seligmann & Company dated 14 June 1957, in NGA curatorial files. Engraving by Charles Courtry, as _Un Pêcheur de truites_ in Galerie Durand-Ruel, _Recueil d'estampes gravées à l'eau forte_, Paris, 1878: pl. CLXXV. [2] Gersel Corp. was a subsidiarary of Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, operating in the 1940s-1960s, possibly consisting of items owned personally by Germain Seligmann. See receipt for purchase from Higgins dated 28 December 1956 in the Seligmann Papers, Archives of American Art, Box 436 (copy in NGA curatorial files).