Provenance: Roussel, Paris, by 1905.[1] (Roussel collection sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 25-28 March 1912, no. 28); (Arnold & Tripp, Paris).[2] (John Levy Galleries, New York); purchased 1919 by William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York;[3] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Alfred Robaut lists the painting as in the Roussel collection in _L'Oeuvre de Corot_, 5 vols., Paris, 1905: 3:168, no. 1698, repro.
[2] "Sen. Clark's New Corot," _American Art News_ 8, no. 9 (20 December 1919): 1.
[3] "Another Corot for Clark," _American Art News_ 8, no. 10 (27 December 1919): 1.