Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée

Provenance

Purchased from the artist in 1785 by Charles Claude de la Billarderie, comte d'Angiviller (1730-1809)
returned to Lagrenée in exchange for L'Amitié consolant la vieillesse in 1787, remaining in the artist's studio upon his death on 19 June 1805
his sale, Hôtel de Bullion, Paris, 12 November 1814, nr. 25
M. Duval
his sale, Paris, 10 January 1865, nr. 35
M. L. Levy
his deceased sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 18 June 1917, nr. 40
M.E. collection
by whom sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 12 June 1926, nr. 50
Féral collection, Paris, by June 1931
anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 12 March 1937, nr. 58
possibly anonymous sale, 7 February 1951
anonymous sale, Palais-Galliera, Paris, June 23, 1964, nr. 30
anonymous sale ("Property of a Lady"), New York, Christie's, 18 May 1994, nr. 106
there acquired by the present collector for $184,000
Sale Sotheby's, New York, 1 February 2018, nr. 71