Alfred de Dreux

Le comte Charles Lehon and La comtesse Fanny Lehon, née Mosselman, Paris (acquired together with The Departure for the Hunt in 1852)
Collection of Le Grand Hôtel, Paris (together with The Departure for the Hunt in 1862)
Sale: Couturier & Nicolay, Musée Galliéra, Paris, December 2, 1975, lot 44 (together with The Departure for the Hunt)
Colnaghi Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1978

A.H. Delaunay, Catalogue complet du Salon de 1846, Paris, 1846, p. 33
Jeanne Doin, "Alfred de Dreux," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, vol. 63, October 1921, p. 246
David Kelley, Baudelaire, Salon de 1846, Oxford, 1975, pp. 162-63, 223, engraving illustrated no. 46
Alfred de Dreux, 1810-1860 : peintures, dessins, aquarelles, lithographies, exh. cat., Paris, 1988, p. XIII
Marie-Christine Renauld, Alfred de Dreux, le peintre du cheval, Lousanne, 1988, p. 16
Marie-Christine Renauld, Alfred de Dreux, le Cheval, passion d'un dandy parisien, Paris, 1997, pp. 47, 67, 161, illustrated p. 50