The artist; Marcel Duchamp [1887-1968], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 March 1926, no. 7); Mme André Breton, Paris, until at least 1930;[1] Léonce Rosenberg, Paris, before 1953;[2] Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, Paris, at least in 1953;[3] Mme Simone Collinet, Paris; (Sidney Janis Gallery, New York); purchased 1956 by Herbert and Nanette Rothschild, Kitchawan, New York; gift 1973 to their daughter and her husband, Barbara and Roger Michaels, Ossining, New York; acquired 1997 by NGA. [1] She lent the painting to a December 1930 Picabia exhibition at Léonce Rosenberg's gallery. [2] The painting was published in 1953 as having belonged to him. [3] He lent the painting to an exhibition that opened in Paris in January 1953.