Knoedler & Co., New York [based on type of label and numbering found on label on reverse of stretcher]. Possibly Elinor Patterson, née Medill (died 1933), Chicago; possibly by descent to her daughter, Eleanor Medill "Cissy" Patterson (died 1948), Chicago and Washington, D. C. [according to Alice Arlen who attested to Cissy Patterson’s ownership of the picture and suggested that she may have inherited it from her mother; electronic correspondence, February 3, 2004, in curatorial file]; by descent to her niece, Alicia Patterson (died 1963); by descent to her husband, Harry Guggenheim [according to Alice Arlen, see above]; given by him to his niece, Alice Albright Hoge (later Alice Arlen), 1963 [see above]; given to the Art Institute, 1970.