Arthur B. Frost; his son, John Frost; (Joseph Bryant, New York), before 1945; (Harry Shaw Newman, New York), 1945; M. Michelotti; consigned 24 January 1946 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 18 February 1946 by (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); sold 15 January 1956 to (Babcock Galleries, New York); Joseph Katz, Baltimore and New York [d. 1958]; his estate, by 1961;[1] his son, Leslie Katz, Brooklyn, by 1963;[2] consigned 13 January 1964 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); sold 2 January 1965 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA. [1] _Thomas Eakins: A Retrospective Exhibition_, Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Washington, D.C., 1961, no. 32, lent by the Estate of Joseph Katz. [2] Leslie Katz showed a photograph of the painting to Lloyd Goodrich 12 December 1963.