Gift of the artist to Eugene Boudin [1894-1898].[1] Edmond Mâitre [1840-1898], Paris; his wife, Mme Maître;[2] sold 1899 to (Durand-Ruel, Paris). Collection Lafon, from 1912; (Durand-Ruel, Paris), by 1957.[3] (Sam Salz, New York); purchased 1958 by Leigh B. [1905-1987] and Mary Lasker [1904-1981] Block, Chicago; (their sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 20 May 1981, no. 317); Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life estate to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014]. [1] The provenance is given in the 1981 sale catalogue of the Block collection. [2] This detail is in Daniel Wildenstein, _Monet: Cataloge raisonné - Werkverzeichnis_, 4 vols., Cologne and Paris, 1996: 2:13, no. 13. [3] The dealer lent the painting to _Claude Monet_, a 1957 exhibition shown in Edinburgh and London.