William Bouguereau

With Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Adele Cassin, later the Marquise de Landolfo Carcano, Paris, (acquired from the above in January 1865)

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 30 May 1912, lot 12 (consigned by the above)

With Goupil, Boussod & Valadon, Paris (acquired from the above)

With Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (acquired from the above on 6 August 1912 and until 10 November 1913)

Mrs. Lottie Rothbard

Private Collection, Tennessee

Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1867, no. 76

Hastings on Hudson, Newington Cropsey Foundation, Virtues, Truth, and the Glorious Infinite, Selected Works of William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1999

Charles Vendryès, “Catalogue illustré des oeuvres de Bouguereau,” in Ludovic Baschet (ed.), Dictionnaire illustré des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1885, p. 27

Marius Vachon, W. Bouguereau, Paris 1900, p. 147

Charles de Franqueville, Le Premier siècle de l'Institut, vol. 1, Paris 1895, p. 370

Mark Steven Walker, “William Bouguereau: A Summary Catalogue of the Paintings” in William-Adolphe Bouguereau: L'Art Pompier, exh. cat., New York 1991, p. 66

Damien Bartoli and Frederick C. Ross, William Bouguereau, Catalogue Raisonné of His Painted Work, New York 2010, p. 77, no. 1864/02, illustrated