Hubert Robert

Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 29 May 1912, lot 36;

Where acquired by "Segard" for 3,150 francs;

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, (1877–1964), New York (by repute);

Private collection, United States, by 1990;

Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 25 January 2012, lot 124;

Private collection, Malibu;

Their sale ("A Palladian Villa by Michael S. Smith"), Christie's, New York, 23-24 April 2013, lot 150;

Where acquired by the present collector.

New York, La Banque Continentale, Madame Balsan's Collection of Paintings, 21 October - 10 November 1966, no. 10 (by repute);

Rome, Villa Medici, J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, 6 December 1990 - 24 February 1991, no. 9 (lent from a private collection, U.S.A.).

R. Michel, in Piranèse et les Français, 1740-1790, exhibition catalogue, Rome 1976, p. 306, under cat. no. 171;

C. Boulot and J.P. Cuzin, in J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, exhibition catalogue, C. Boulot, J.P. Cuzin, and P. Rosenberg (eds.), Rome 1990, pp. 60-61, 82, cat. no. 9, reproduced pl. 2;

M. Roland Michel, "Review: Light and Ruins: Fragonard and Hubert Robert in Rome," in Master Drawings 29, no. 4 (Winter 1991), pp. 432-433.