Purchased 1942 by Alfred Frankenstein [1906-1981], San Francisco;[1] purchased 1943 by (Arnold Seligman & Rey, New York); (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23-24 May 1951, no. 593); puchased by H. Turner. George Morris and Edwin Weldon, Weston, Connecticut; on consignment 1970 with (Hirschl & Adler Galeries, New York); returned to Morris and Weldon; consigned May 1975 to (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York); purchased 1977 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] In an undated letter written to his mother shortly after Christmas, Alfred Frankenstein relates the detailed story of finding the painting in a second-hand store along Sutter Street (Alfred Frankenstein Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Roll 1374, frames 470-473). In a letter of 17 December 1969 to Mark Weinstein, attorney for George Morris and Edwin Weldon, Frankenstein wrote that he found the painting "in a second-hand shop on Sutter Street in San Francisco just before Christmas in the year 1942, and I sold it some months later..." Copies of both letters are in NGA curatorial files.