Provenance :
– Louis Varanchan de Saint Geniès; his post-mortem sale, Paris (experts Chariot and Paillet,) December 29th -31st, 1777, lot 3.
– Dulac and Lachaise, Paris (experts Chariot and Paillet,) November 30th,1778.
– Anonymous Sale (A foreign collector’s cabinet), experts Laneuville and Jousserand, November 21st, 1822, lots 88 and 89.
– Willy Blumenthal Collection , Paris.
– Acquired by the André Weil Gallery, Paris, in February 1935.
Bibliography:
– P. de Nolhac, François Boucher, Paris, 1907, p. 110 and p. 120, inexact provenance
– A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Paris, 1976, vol. 2. P. 213, no 548/1 and no 549/2
– A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, L’opera completa di Boucher, 1980, n. 579 and 580
– J.P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Llife and Work, New-York, 1988, pp. 82, 252
