[Meffre aîne]; his sale, François and Wéry, Paris, 25 February 1845, lot 104.
Mr. Piérard, Valenciennes; (†) his sale, Laneuville and Le Roy, Paris, 20 March 1860, lot 100 (FF 18,800).
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris, by descent to his son,
Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris,
Confiscated after May 1940 from the above following the Nazi occupation of Paris.
Transferred to the German Embassy, Paris and then to the Jeu de Paume, Paris (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg no. R 100).
Selected by Hermann Göring for the planned “Führermuseum” (Linz no. 1482), 5 February 1941, and sent to the Führerbau, Munich.
Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section from the salt mines at Alt Aussee (Aussee no. 2104).
Transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 8 July 1945 (MCCP no. 2989).
Repatriated to France, 20 September 1945, and returned to,
Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris, by descent to his daughter,
Batsheva de Rothschild (1914-1999), Tel Aviv; (†), Christie's, London, 13 December 2000, lot 40, where acquired by the present owner.