William Bouguereau

With Tooth & Sons, London;

Mrs. Henderson, Washington D.C.;

Mrs. Wilton J. Lambert, Washington D.C.;

Mrs. Elizabeth Lambert Baker, Washington D.C.;

Mr. and Mrs. Selden, Washington D.C.;

By whom sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 9 October 1974, lot 141;

Audrey Flack, New York, by 1992;

Thence by descent to the Audrey Flack Foundation.

Franqueville, William Bouguereau, Paris, 1895;

M. Vachon, W. Bouguereau, Paris 1900, p. 158 (as La Palme);

Catalogue Braun & Clément, (s.1., n.d.), photograph no. 4231 (as La palme);

L. d'Argencourt, "Bouguereau et le marché de l'art en France," in William Bouguereau, 1825-1905, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1984, p. 137, fig. 113, reproduced;

M. S. Walker, in William-Adolphe Bouguereau: A Summary Catalogue of the Paintings, exhibition catalogue, New York 1991, pp. 54-55, 74, n.n., reproduced;

D. Bartoli, F. C. Ross, William Bouguereau, Catalogue Raisonné of his Painted Work, New York 2010, p. 291, no. 1894/09, reproduced;

Bouguereau & His Milleu at Hirschl & Adler Gallery, exhibition catalogue, New York 2011, n.p., n.n.

New York, Borghi & Co., William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 14 November 1991 - 7 January 1992 (as La palme)