Jean Georges Vibert

Irving M. Scott, San Francisco

by descent, Alice W. Scott, San Francisco

Elisabeth Knight, San Francisco

Sale: Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 28 October 1982, lot 140 (as Duo d'Amour)

The collection of Tibor Benton, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

San Francisco, 16th Industrial Exhibition, San Francisco Mechanics' Institute, August 2- September 10, 1881

San Francisco, The M. H. de Young Memorial Art Museum (on loan)

San Francisco, Man: Glory, Jest, and Riddle: A Survey of the Human Form Through the Ages, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, de Young Memorial Museum, November 10, 1964-January 3, 1965, no. 226

San Francisco, 16th Industrial Exhibition, San Francisco Mechanics' Institute, 1881, pp. 127-8 (as Duet of Love).

"Art and Artists," The Californian, January-June, 1881, vol. III, p. 574.

"Famous Paintings Owned on the West Coast IX: Vibert's The Duet of Love, Owned by Miss Alice W. Scott," 1898, pp. 289-241, illustrated p. 240.

San Francisco, Man: Glory, Jest, and Riddle: A Survey of the Human Form Through the Ages, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, de Young Memorial Museum, November 10, 1964-January 3, 1965, no. 226.

Ruth Lily Westphal, Plein Air Painters of California, the North, 1986, p. 5.