Commissioned by Louis Léon Clapisson (husband of sitter), Neuilly, for 3,000 francs [per Bailey 1997]; by descent to Marie Henriette Valentine Billet Clapisson (wife), Neuilly, 1894; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, November 12, 1908, for 15,000 francs [per Distel, “Appendix II: The Notebooks of Léon Clapisson,” Bailey 1997]. Durand-Ruel, New York, by July 8, 1913; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, July 8, 1913, for $12,000 [per purchase receipt on Durand-Ruel letterhead, dated July 8, 1913, records that this painting (no. 3422, as Portrait de Mme Clapisson, 1883) was sold by Durand-Ruel, New York, to Martin A. Ryerson for $12,000; photocopy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.