Purchased from the artist December 1920 by (Durand-Ruel, Paris) and (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris); (Durand-Ruel, New York) by 1922 until at least 1926.[1] (Sam Salz, Inc., New York); sold 2 November 1960 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1983 to NGA. [1]See Wildenstein, Daniel, _Monet: Catalogue Raisonné_, 1996, vol. III: no. 1564 and also Paul Hayes Tucker, _Monet in the Twentieth Century_, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1998, no. 15 and p. 130, regarding the early history of this painting. Lent by Durand-Ruel, New York, to a 1926 exhibition in Toronto.