Provenance
?Collot, Paris, from 1878, bought from the artist 2 June
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Georges de Bellio, Paris, 1879-after 1889
with
Durand-Ruel, Paris
with Georges Bernheim, until about 1930
Alfred Lindenbaum, later Lindon, Paris, by 1931-died about 1948, deposited with Durand-Ruel 1935, held in Paris for Lindenbaum/Lindon, no. LI 45, at Chase Bank, Paris, from which seized by the Nazis in 1940, no. 30; taken from the Jeu de Paume, no. 66, November 25, 1942 by Hermann Goering, no. RM1278, who exchanged it with art dealer Commandatore Eugenio Ventura of Florence on 6 December 1942, or 18 February or 8 March 1943, nr. 6, through intermediaries, with Hofer acting for Goering and Morandotti for Ventura
NARA claim, 20 February 1945
seized by the Commission de Récupération Artistique on November 28, 1946, no. 30, in Rome and returned to France, according to docket no. 457-08-36 of the Ministry of Education, Paris, December 4, 1946, when it was restituted to the Lindon family
his wife, Mme Lindon, Paris 1948-59
her son, Jacques Lindon, New York, 1959, sold to MMA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1959