Private collection, France;[1] (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 December 1996, no. 136); (James MacKinnon, London); purchased 17 February 1998 by NGA. [1] According to the acquisition proposal written by NGA curator Philip Conisbee (in NGA curatorial files), "Denis’ drawings, oil sketches, and small open-air paintings have remained with his family until their gradual dispersal in France in the early 1990s (e.g. Sotheby’s, Monaco, 18-19 June 1992, lots 177-212, catalogue p. 154ff).”