HUGUES MERLE | PENSEZ À DIEU

Goupil & Cie., Paris, no. 11201 (acquired directly from the artist, May 1876)

Knoedler & Co., New York, no. 323 (acquired from the above, August 1876)

Colonel Henry Simpson McComb, Wilmington, Delaware (acquired from the above, January 1877) 

J.F. McComb (by descent from the above) 

Elizabeth McComb Mills (by descent from the above, her father)

Elizabeth McComb Peoples (by descent from the above, her mother)

Thence by descent to the present owner