Purchased from the artist by William Morris Hunt (1824–79), a former pupil of Millet's in Paris, Boston, before 1855; by whom given to Jane Maria Hunt (sister of above), and subsequently given, as a Christmas present, to her brother Richard Morris Hunt (1827–95), Newport, Rhode Island, c. 1864; by descent to his son Herbert Leavitt Hunt (1877–1960), 1895–1921; from whom acquired, through David Croal Thompson (dealer), of Barbizon House, London, for the Felton Bequest, in 1921.