Mme Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, the artist's sister-in-law, Amsterdam;[1] sold May 1909 to (J.H. de Bois [C.M. van Gogh, Mme van Gogh-Bonger's uncle by marriage], The Hague); sold 1909 to Carl Sternheim [1878-1942], Munich and later La Hulpe, Belgium;[2] traded 1909 to (Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Paris).[3] (Jos Hessel, Paris). (Paul Rosenberg and Co., Paris). Georges Bernheim, Paris. Alphonse Kann [1870-1948], Paris, by 1917.[4] J.B. Stang, Oslo;[5] sold 3 January 1928 through (Dr. Alfred Gold [1874-1958], Berlin) to (Alex Reid and Lefèvre, Ltd., Glasgow and London) on joint account with (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); sold 21 May 1929 through (Galerie Étienne Bignou, Paris) to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[6] bequest 1963 to NGA. [1] The painting is no. 169 in the Andries Bonger list of 1890, described as "Jeune fille à la fleur, toile de 25" ("Catalogue des oeuvres de Vincent van Gogh," manuscript b 3055 V/1962, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; copy in NGA curatorial files). [2] The painting sold for 3000 guilders, per Jan Frederik Heijbroek and E.L. Wouthuysen, _Kunst, kennis en commercie: de kunsthandelaar J.H. de Bois (1878-1946)_, Amsterdam, 1993:195, and Christ Stolwijk and Han Veenenbos, _The account book of Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger_, Amsterdam and Leiden, 2002: 52 (17/12), 127 (92/10), 149, 172. See also Walter Feilchenfeldt, _Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cassirer, Berlin: The Reception of van Gogh in Germany from 1901-1914_, Zwolle, 1988: 94. A label from the "Kunsthandel C.M. van Gogh, Keizersgracht 953, Amsterdam" is on the back of the painting. [3] Thea Sternheim, _Tagebücher 1905-1927. Die Jahre mit Carl Sternhaim_, Mainz, 1995: 25, mentions Carl trading the portrait to Bernheim-Jeune in exchange for a landscape. Bernheim-Jeune & Cie no. 16771 is per a label on the back of the painting. Hessel, Rosenberg and Georges Bernheim are per Chester Dale papers, in NGA curatorial files. [4] The painting was lent by Kann to the 1917 exhibition _Französische Kunst des XIX. u. XX. Jahrhunderts_, Zürchner Kunsthaus, no.108, as _Fillette d'Arles_. There is also a partial label on the back of the painting that reads "Alph. Kann. van Gogh, Fillette d'Arles." [5] The Stang collection was visited in January 1929 by Cesar de Hauke and Germain Seligmann, per the Seligmann papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Box 208. The collection was described, and this painting reproduced, by Paul Jamot in "L'Art français en Norvège," _La Renaissance_ (February 1929). This painting, however, was already sold by Dr. Alfred Gold to Reid & Lefèvre by that time. See Reid & Lefèvre, Paintings Sold, sheet no. 161, #312/28 B1343, which records the date of purchase from Gold as 3 January 1928 (Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11, Box 283). Gold was selling pictures from the Stang collection over a number of years; see the Seligmann papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Box 394. Copies of all the archival documents are in NGA curatorial files. [6] The invoice dated 5 April 1929 from Bignou to Reid & Lefèvre for the re-framing of the painting suggests it was in Paris by that time (Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11, Box 180). On 29 May 1929, Bignou writes that he has shipped the picture to London (Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11, Box 218). Copies of the 1929 invoice and letter are in NGA curatorial files.