Purchased 26 April 1872 from the artist by (Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris); sent 12 December 1872 to (Durand-Ruel Gallery, London); sold 5 March 1874 to Jean Baptiste Faure [1830-1914], Paris; returned by Faure to Degas at the artist's request; gift to James Tissot [1836-1902], Paris; purchased 11 March 1890 by (Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris); acquired the same day by Joseph Durand-Ruel, Paris; acquired 25 August 1891 by Paul Durand-Ruel [1831-1922] for his private collection, Paris; his estate; sent 16 November 1925 to (Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York), where it was registered as stock in January 1936;[1] Mr. and Mrs. Jean D'Alayer, of the Durand-Ruel family, 1951 to at least 1960.[2] (Janet Traeger Salz, Inc., New York), by 1991; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1992, no. 4, bought in); sold March 1995 to NGA. [1] Early provenance per 1992 Sotheby's sale catalogue. [2] Mrs. d'Alayer was born Marie-Louise Durand-Ruel, granddaughter of the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. The d'Alayers were lenders to a Degas exhibition at the Berner Kunstmuseum in 1951, and according to a label on the painting's stretcher, the lenders to a 1960 exhibition at Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris.