Nicolas de Largillière

Titon collection;

Thence by inheritance to Paul Carron de la Carrière (1852-1915), Château de Piré, France, by 1912;

By whose descendant sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 23 November 2005, lot 56 (as a pair with a portrait of his wife, Jeanne-Cécile Titon de Cogny);

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 2006, lot 50 (as a pair);

With Robilant & Voena, Saint Moritz;

From whom acquired by the present collector.

A. Maumené, "Le Chateau de Piré," in Vie à la Campagne 11, no. 127 (January 1912), p. 286, reproduced.