Michel Boy [1844-1904], Paris and Versailles; (his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 15-24 May 1905, no. 755)[1]. Purchased before 1915 by Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[2] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA. [1] This bronze sold on 23 May (copy of auction catalogue entry in NGA curatorial files). [2] Edith Standen, the Widener curator, records that the sculpture was probably purchased early in the 20th century, by Peter A.B. Widener, who died in 1915. She had no record of it until it appears in an inventory she believed to have been compiled in 1918. The buyer in the 1905 Boy auction is unknown, but potentially was Widener, who owned another work from the Boy collection.