Édouard Dantan

Isaac Smith J.P. (1832–1909), Bradford;

By whose Executors sold, London, Christie's, 15 May 1911, lot 48, for 50 guineas to Sampson;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 26 March 1999, lot 44, for £29,000 (as Fastening the nets);

With Pyms Gallery, London;

From whom acquired by the present owner.

Paris, Salon, 1886, no. 648 (as Les Guideaux, à Villerville-sur-Mer (Calvados)).

G. Olmer, Salon de 1886, Paris 1886, p. 18;

L. Ganderax, 'Delegue au Salon: Notes d'un voyageur', Les Lettres et les Arts: Revue Illustrée, 1886, vol. 1, p. 353, no. 2, reproduced;

The Art Journal, 1886, p. 224;

K. McConkey, Memory and Desire, Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Aldershot 2002, pp. 43 and 46, fig. 21, reproduced.

The present work is listed in the artist's handwritten Le Livre de Raison (inventory number LR_281) alongside an accompanying sketch, published online on the Musée des Avelines website.