JOHN LA FARGE | BLUE IRIS, STUDY

The artist (sold: Leonard's Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, December 18, 1879, lot 3)

Henry Lee Higginson (acquired at the above sale) 

James Jackson Higginson (his brother, gift from the above)

By descent

Oliver Claxton (acquired from the above)

Margaret G. Fiske (acquired from the above) 

Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts

Jerald Dillon Fessenden, by 1987 

The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, by 1995

Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Museum of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, John La Farge, July 1987-April 1988, no. 107, pp. 142-43, illustrated p. 143

New York, The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge, April-June 1995, no. 62, pp. 47-48, 137, illustrated p. 137; also illustrated pl. 37, p. 104