Provenance: (sale, Drouot, Paris, 1 March 1983, no. 135, as attrib. to Philippe Mercier). (Galerie Cailleux, Paris, as Nicolas Lancret); Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 1996, inv. D-F-371; placed on long-term loan at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, inv. 1.1996.40 (returned in 20xx); gift to NGA in 2017