French School, 18th century

William Albert Slater (1857-1919), Norwich, CT and Washington, DC;

By whose estate offered ("Property of the Estate of the late William A. Slater"), New York, American Art Association, 30 November 1928, lot 82 (as Mme. Vigée Le Brun);

Anonymous sale, New York, American Art Association, 15 November 1929, lot 86 (as Mme. Vigée Le Brun);

Where acquired by Robert B. Honeyman (1897-1987), for $850;

By whom anonymously sold ("Calif. Private Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 11 November 1954, lot 266 (as Adelaide Labille-Guiard);

Where acquired by the present collector.

Boston, Copley Hall, Loan Collection of Portraits for the Benefit of the Associated Charities and the North End Union, 2 March - 23 March 1896, no. 155 (lent by W.A. Slater);

Washington, D.C., United States National Museum (under direction of the Smithsonian Institution), on loan, 1913 (lent by W.A. Slater).

Loan Collection of Portraits for the Benefit of the Associated Charities and the North End Union, exhibition catalogue, Boston 1896, p. 27, cat. no. 155 (as Vigee Le Brun).

Report of the Assistant Director and of the Curators of the U.S. National Museum. United States: Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1914, p. 100 (as Madam Vigée Lebrun).