Susan Macdowell Eakins [Mrs. Thomas Eakins, 1851-1938], Philadelphia; her estate; (Babcock Galleries, New York); (Garelick Gallery, Detroit); Marshall M. Miller, Huntington Woods, Michigan; Peter H. Brady, Washington, D.C., by 1977.[1] (Middendorf/Lane, Washington, D.C.), in 1979.[2] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, 24 April 1981, no. 92);[3] (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York); sold 1982 to John Wilmerding, Washington, D.C.; gift 1991 to NGA. [1] Phyllis D. Rosenzweig, _The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden_, Washington, D.C., 1977: 297. [2] The painting appears in a Middendorf/Lane advertisement in the October 1979 issue of _Art News_. [3] The painting is not recorded in the price list for the 1981 sale, so it was perhaps acquired privately by Hirschl and Adler after the auction.