Marquis de Biron, Paris and Château de Biron, Monpazier;[1] sold 1926 to (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London); sold 19 November 1927 or 1929 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[2] gift 1943 to NGA. [1] This "marquis de Biron" was possibly Guillaume de Gontaut Biron, marquis de Biron (1859-1939); see _Les donateurs du Louvre_, Paris, 1989: 220, and Georges Martin, _Histoire et généalogie des maisons de Gontaut Biron et D'Hautefort_, Lyon, 1995: 60. However, in a letter dated 3 December 1995 (in NGA curatorial files), the then-marquis de Gontaut-Biron says there is no family record or memory of paintings by Chardin in his ancestor's collection and gives a death date of 1936. [2] The Chester Dale records (copy in NGA curatorial files) give 1927 as the year of purchase. Joseph Baillio of Wildenstein, in a letter of 8 November 1995 to Eik Kahng (in NGA curatorial files), gives the year as 1929, and also provides the year that Wildenstein acquired the painting.