Given by Corot to his god-daughter, Mme. Renaut, at the time of her first communion;[1] purchased by (Georges Petit, Paris) by 1898;[2] sold to Albert, vicomte de Curel [1827-1928], Paris;[3] his heirs; (his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, 25 November 1918 [originally scheduled for 3 May 1918], no. 1, as _Le Lac de Terni_); purchased jointly by (Arnold & Tripp, Paris) and (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[4] purchased April 1919 by William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York, as _Le Lac de Terni_;[5] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] See M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Sales book 11, p. 253. [2] See Alfred Robaut, _L'Oeuvre de Corot_, Paris, 1905: 224, no. 1943. [3] The vicomte de Curel has been identified by François Auffret, Président of La Société des Amis de Jongkind in Paris (founded 1970), with confirmation from the collector's descendants. With M. Auffret's kind permission, his research was shared with the Corcoran Gallery of Art by Dr. Diana Kostyrko (see her e-mail from 11 November 2008 in NGA curatorial files). [4] See M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stock book 6, no. 14539, p. 181, row 47. [5] See M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stock book 6, no. 14539, p. 181, row 47.