Presumably gift or by inheritance from the artist to his mother, Mme. Seurat; the artist's brother-in-law, Léon Appert [1937-1925], Paris; his son Léopold Appert [1867-1931], Paris; sold 1924 to Félix Fénéon, Paris;[1] acquired September 1937 by Marie N. Harriman [1903-1970], New York;[2] by inheritance to her husband, W. Averell Harriman [1891-1986], New York; W. Averell Harriman Foundation, New York; gift 1972 to NGA. [1] According to notes for the painting prepared for the Seurat catalogue raisonné by Félix Fénéon and César Mange de Hauke, the painting was with Léon and Leopold Appert until 1924 when it was sold to Félix Fénéon (Fonds César Mange de Hauke, Institut national d’histoire d’art, Paris, Archives 36/6). Leopold Appert offered Fénéon the painting under the title “La pointe de Cherbourg” in a letter dated 29 March 1924 (INHA, 36/1/6/3). Karen Serres, Senior Curator of Paintings at the Courtauld Institute, kindly passed along these documents in emails of 17 August and 3 September 2025 (NGA curatorial files). [2] Fénéon lent the painting in 1937 to Wildenstein, London, for its exhibition _Seurat and his Contemporaries_ (no. 62), which ran from 20 January - 27 February. Harriman purchased it later that year year, according to a document from the Harriman collection records (copy NGA curatorial files), and exhibited it in November in her New York gallery (no. 17).