Anne Vallayer-Coster

Possibly Piat Joseph Sauvage (1744–1818), Tournai;

Possibly his sale, Paris, A. Paillet et M. Chariot, 6 December 1808, lot 29, for 36.5 francs; 

Seligmann collection, before 1939;

Private collection, Paris, by 1970;

Thence by descent to the present owner. 

M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster 1744–1818, Paris 1970, pp. 108 and 111, no. 18, reproduced;

E. Kahng and M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette, exh. cat., New Haven and London 2002, p. 214, no. 107, reproduced (as current whereabouts unknown).