M. F. Huot.[1] (Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939], Paris, by 1933).[2] (Etienne Bignou, Paris and New York) by1939.[3] (Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles). Aline Barnsdall [1882-1946], Los Angeles, by 1941;[4] her estate; (purchased 1952 by M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York); sold 1 July 1952 to Richard H. Zinser [1884-1984], Forest Hills, NY).[5] Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss, Greenwich, CT, by 1956, until at least 1965.[6] (Eugene Victor Thaw and Co., New York); sold April 1973 to Mr. Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, VA; gift 1985 to NGA. [1] According to the annotation on the back of a photograph in an album from the Bignou Gallery, New York, the painting was formerly in the collection of M. F. Huot. (See the photograph for “Matinée de printemps à St. Anthonin,” Bignou Gallery Albums no. 2, MS.024. Frick Collection Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files). A likely candidate for this collector is (Monsieur) François Huot [1842-1915], brother of Joseph Huot [1840-1898], childhood friend of Cezanne in Aix. See Maurice Raimbault, _Une letter de Cézanne à Joseph Huot_, Marseille, 1937: 12, 18. [2] Vollard lent the work to the 1936 Cezanne exhibition at the Musée de Orangerie, Paris (no. 108bis, as _Rout ensoleillée_), according to Société Paul Cezanne,"La Route tournante; also known as Matinée de printemps à Saint-Antonin," _The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné_ (https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=903, accessed 31 July 2025). [3] Exhibited at the Bignou Gallery in New York in June-September 1939 and the following April. [4]Lent by Barnsdall to 1941 exhibition in Los Angeles, in the catalogue of which Hatfield is listed as a prior owner. The picture was not included in the 24 April 1952 sale of Barnsdall's estate held at Kende Galleries, New York. [5] See Knoedler Stock Book 10, p. 86, row 52, stock no. A5036, and Knoedler Commission Book 5a: p. 55, no.CA 4059, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, as "Road to St. Anthonin." [6]Lent by Bareiss to exhibitions at Yale in 1956, New York in 1958, and Munich in 1965.