Possibly George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke [1]

Possibly Earl of Pembroke sale, Paris, 19 place Vendôme, 27-30 June, 1-10 July 1862, no. 10 [2]

Mme Pauper, Paris

Mme P… Pauper sale, Hôtel Drouot, salle 8, 12-15 March 1873, no. 14

Acquired for 8,500 francs by "M. le duc de Narbonne, 21 rue de Varennes [sic]" [3]

Maurice Kann, Paris, before 1909

Edouard Kann, Paris

[Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1925-1926]

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 9 July 1926, no. 136, repr.

Acquired for 800 guineas by "Smith" [4]

[Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 1926]

Mrs. Benjamin Stern, New York, 1927-1934

Stern sale, New York, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 4-7 April 1934, no. 839, repr.

Acquired by Mr. and Mrs. E. John Magnin, New York

Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1975


[1] Ingersoll-Smouse 1928, p. 42, no. 56.
[2] As "Reunion in a park."
[3] According to the sale catalogue annotated by Seymour de Ricci, Cabinet des Estampes, Yd. 2589, vol. 4.
[4] According to the Witt Library, London.

1942, New York. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. “French and English Art Treasures of the XVIII Century,” 20 - 30 December, no. 44.

1978-1979, Denver-New York-Minneapolis. “Masterpieces of French Art: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.” Denver Art Museum, 26 December 1978 - 18 February 1979; New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., 14 March - 27 April 1979; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 24 May - 1 July 1979, no. 33.

Auguste Marguillier. "Collections de feu M. Maurice Kann." Les Arts, no. 88 (April 1909): p. 4, repr., advt.

Burlington Magazine (July 1926): advt.

Florence Ingersoll-Smouse. Pater. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1928, p. 42, no. 56, 124, fig. 46 on 124.

Thomas P. Lee. "Recently Acquired French Paintings: Reflections on the Past." Apollo 111, no. 217 (March 1980): p. 218, fig. 9 on 215.

Pierre Rosenberg and Marion C. Stewart. French Paintings 1500-1825: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987, pp. 244-246, repr.