Possibly (anonymous sale [Prince Galitzin?], Paris, 18 December 1826, no. 140). André Vincent, Paris, by 1930;[1] (his sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 25 May 1933, no. 15);[2] purchased by (Étienne Bignou, Paris, France); sold 1933 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1943 to NGA. [1] Lent by Vincent to an exhibition in Paris in 1930. [2] The catalogue of the Vincent sale both confuses the provenance of this picture with that of its composition's other version, then in the collection of Baron Henri de Rothschild, and misidentifies it as _The Young Artist_, a painting actually at the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg. The Henri de Rothschild collection was evacuated to England during World War II, where a German bombing raid destroyed many of its pictures, including, it is believed, the "Rothschild version" of the NGA painting.