Given by the artist to Monsieur F. Stumpf; Stumpf family until at least 1906;[1] Mme Barbier de Saint Hilaire, née Madeleine Stumpf, the child in the painting; sold by 1922[2] to (Tedesco Frères, Paris) and (Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, London and Paris);[3] acquired c. 1965 by (E.V. Thaw & Co, New York);[4] sold January 1966 to (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London); sold 26 March 1966 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA. [1] Discussed as part of the Stumpf collection, but not offered for sale, in _Catalogue de tableaux moderne composant la collection de feu M. F. Stumpf_, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7 May 1906, pp. 6-10. [2] Letter dated 29 July 1970 from Jean Dieterle to David Rust, in NGA curatorial files. [3] According to a letter from Alexandre Rosenberg dated 27 June 1977, in NGA curatorial files, the painting was confiscated with others from the Rosenberg collection in France in 1940, traced to a Swiss collection in 1945, and returned to the Rosenbergs in 1947. The painting is listed as no. 37.954 in the _Répertoire des biens spoliés en France durant la guerre 1939-1945_ [_List of Property Removed from France during the War, 1939-1945_, Groupe française du conseil de controle, 1947. Documents from the National Archives in Washington indicate that the picture was confiscated on 18 September 1940 from the château of Floirac (see letter dated 15 December 1944 from Edmond Rosemberg with first list of Floirac pictures, Rosenberg claim file, National Archives RG260/OMGUS/Records of the Museum, Fine Arts and Archives Section/Cultural Property Claims Applications/ Box 743, copies in NGA curatorial files). The painting was selected by Hermann Goering from the Jeu de Paume (OSS Consolidated Interrogation Report #2, The Goering Collection, 15 September 1945, Attachment 5,_Nachtrag zur Liste v. 20.10.42 der für die Sammlung des Reichnsmarschalls Hermann Göring abgegebenen Kunstgegestände_ dated 9 April 1943, no. 3, National Archives RG239/Entry 73/box 78; see also OSS dispatch dated 29 August 1945, National Archives RG 226/Entry 190/Box 532, copies in NGA curatorial files). The French dealer Zacharie Birtschansky [1889 - c.1950]was then involved in selling the picture to Hans Wendland for a Swiss dealer, probably Fischer (see OSS Consolidated Interrogation Report #2, The Goering Collection, 15 September 1945, p. 57-8, National Archives RG 226/Entry 99/Box 105, copy NGA curatorial files). [4] Letter of 20 April 1995 from E.V. Thaw and Co., Inc., in NGA curatorial files.