Claude Monet

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 11 December 1883)

Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (transferred from the above in 1897)

Jean and Marie-Louise d'Alayer (born Marie-Louise Durand-Ruel), Paris (by descent from the above in 1949)

Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 3 June 1954, lot 51 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owners

Montreal, The Art Gallery, French Impressionists, 1906, no. 6

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, 1907, no. 19 (titled Les îles de Portvillers)

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings of different periods by Monet, 1911, no. 9 (titled Les îles de Portvillers)

Lionello Venturi, Les Archives de l'Impressionnisme, vol. I, Paris, 1939, p. 268

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet. Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Lausanne, 1979, no. 841, pp. 108-109, illustrated

Steven Z. Levine, Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection : The Modernist Myth of the Self, Chicago, 1994, no. 37, pp. 39 and 43, illustrated

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Cologne, 1996, no. 841, pp. 312-313, illustrated