Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st viscount Rothermere [d.1940]; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 19 December 1941, no. 37); purchased by (Arthur Tooth and Sons, London and Paris) for Capt. Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris;[1] sold 15 August 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.[2] [1] Arthur Tooth records, volume XXI, London Branch Stock Inventory, p. 85 (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, accession no. 860679). There is a label from "Arthur Tooth & Sons" on the reverse of the painting, on the top bar of the cradle. [2] According to the Ailsa Mellon Bruce notebook, now in NGA archives; copy in NGA curatorial files.