Charles Auguste Girard, Paris, by 1950.[1] Collection Rottembourg-Roncey, Paris, by 1957 until at least 1967.[2] (Philippe Reichenbach, Geneva); sold 1970 to (Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich); sold 26 May 1971 through John Rewald to Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, New York;[3] gift 1998 to NGA. [1] The painting was lent by Girard to the 1950 Venice Biennale and possibly to the 1948 exhibition in Zurich. [2] The painting was published in Bernard Dorival, "Les Affiches à Trouville," _La Revue des Arts_ (September-October 1957): 225, and in Joseph-Emile Muller, _Fauvism_, New York, 1967: no. 117, as being in the Rottembourg-Roncey collection. [3] See letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt dated 21 October 2000, in NGA curatorial files.