Provenance
M. and Mme Paul Sigisbert Moitessier, Paris, by 1856–his d. 1889 (?gift of the artist)
Mme Moitessier, Paris, 1889–died 1897
her daughter, Françoise-Camille-Marie, vicomtesse Olivier-Achille-Gabriel Taillepied de Bondy, Paris, from 1897
by descent, Taillepied de Bondy family, Paris, until 1984
sale, Jean-Paul Couturier and Raymond de Nicolay, Paris, 12 December 1984, nr. 32, as "Étude de tête de Saint-Jean," for Fr 600,000 to Whitney
with Wheelock Whitney, New York, 1984–85; sold to MMA
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