Mme Mendès-France; (her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 30-31 May 1932, no. 169). (sale, Drouot Richelieu, Paris, 8 December 1995, no. 130).[1] (Schiller & Bodo, New York); purchased 10 February 1997 by NGA. [1] This sale was discovered and added to the collection database in November 2001. It is not included in the provenance published in Lorenz Eitner, _French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Part I: Before Impressionism_, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, New York and Oxford, 2000: 335.