Louis Gabriel Marquis de Véri-Raionard (died 1785); his estate sale, Paris, December 12, 1785, lot 74; sold to Devouge for 371 livres [acc. to annotated copies of the catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, and Getty Research Institute]. David David-Weill, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris; sold or consigned to Wildenstein, Paris, 1919; sold by Wildenstein, 1924 [acc. to Joseph Baillio’s letter to Martha Wolff, dated September 23, 1994, in curatorial file]. Albert John Kobler (died 1937), New York; by descent to his wife, Mignon Kobler (died 1942) [acc. to Martha Wolff’s telephone conversation with John Kobler, Albert’s son, May 30, 1995, and Chrisopher Apostle, Sotheby's who confirmed that the picture was consigned to Parke-Bernet by the Kobler estate; see his letter to Martha Wolff, dated October 26, 2004, in curatorial file]; sold Parke-Bernet, New York, April 22, 1948, lot 16 (ill.), as Jean Baptiste Greuze, L’Amoureux Desir; Nicholas de Koenigsberg, New York and Argentina [acc. to Parke-Bernet Galleries’ archive card]. Simon Dickinson Inc., New York, by 1994; sold to the Art Institute, 1994.