Jean-Baptiste Pater

Alfred de Rothschild (1842–1918), 1 Seamore Place, London, and Halton House, Buckinghamshire, by 1884;

Probably from whom acquired by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, for the following, in 1888:

Edward Cecil Guinness (1847-1927), 1st Earl of Iveagh, London;

Thence by descent to his son, Walter Guinness (1880–1944), 1st Baron Moyne;

Thence by descent to his son, Murtogh David Guinness (1913–2002), New York;

By whose estate sold ("Property from the Estate of the Honorable Murtogh Guinness"), New York, Christie’s, 24 January 2003, lot 99;

Where acquired by Dr. Hinrich Bischoff;

Thence by inheritance.

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of French Art, 1200–1900, 4 January – 12 March 1932, nos. 259, 263 (lent by Lord Moyne, London);

Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, long-term loan, until 2025.

C. Davis, A description of the works of art forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild, London 1884, vol. I, n.p., nos. 62 and 63, reproduced;

F. Ingersoll–Smouse, Pater, Paris 1928, pp. 58, 63, 197, nos. 276 bis, 321 bis, reproduced figs. 183, 184;

Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, exhibition catalogue, London 1932, pp. 129, 130, cat. nos. 259, 263;

Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, exhibition catalogue, London 1932, p. 57, cat. nos. 215-216, reproduced plate 54.