Provenance: (Sale, Leavitt Art Galleries, New York, 20 February 1879, as _Etretat, Coast of France_). Edward N. Gibbs, New York; by descent to his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Gibbs Sherrill, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. (Childs Gallery, Boston); purchased 27 April 1959 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.