Provenance

Dealers Ferdinand & Julien Tempelaere, Paris, purchased from a doctor that cared for Courbet (see letter from Paul Brame, dated January 16, 1963); dealer Hector Brame (1831–99), Paris; Richard Goetz Collection, Paris and New York, brought to United States at the beginning of WWII; passed through Richard Zinser, New York (see letter of Mr. Zinser, dated 6 December 1962); Walter Bareiss Collection, New York, purchased from the Goetz estate in 1955–56.

Richard Goetz was a German national living in Paris at the outbreak of World War I. His collection was sequestered and sold by the French government at Hotel Drouot, Paris on 23 February 1922.