William Sidney Mount

(probably) Asher B. Durand, New York (acquired by 1832)

Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore (probably acquired from the above circa 1832)

F. W. Bennett & Co., Baltimore, 10 November 1863, lot 33 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Robert Gilmor IV, Baltimore (acquired at the above sale)

Margaret Painter, Owings Mill, Maryland

Fanny L. Pearre, Baltimore (acquired after 1931)

Private Collection, Baltimore (acquired by descent from the above circa 1973)

Doyle, New York, 19 November 2012, lot 21 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, National Academy of Design, The Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, The Seventh, 1832, no. 93 (titled Sketch from Nature, Country Lad Resting on a fence)

(possibly) New York, American Academy of the Fine Arts, 1833

Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society, Paintings, Engravings, & Co. at the Picture Gallery of the Maryland Historical Society. First Annual Exhibition, 1848, no. 31 (titled Boy Getting Over a Fence, Throg's Point, N.Y.)

"National Academy of Design" The New-York Mirror, vol. IX, no. 49, 9 June 1832, p. 391 (titled Sketch from nature)

"The Picture of a Boy on a Fence," The New-York Mirror, vol. XII, no. 18, 1 November 1834, p. 137, illustrated

Bartlett Cowdrey and Hermann Warner Williams, Jr., William Sidney Mount: 1807-1868: An American Painter, New York, 1944, no. 12, p. 15

Alfred Frankenstein, William Sidney Mount, New York, 1975, pp. 25 (titled Boy resting on a fence (an old hedge)), 249 (titled Boy Resting on a Fence) and 468

Deborah J. Johnson, William Sidney Mount: Painter of American Life, 1998, pp. 28 and 118-119