Between 1881 and 1888 it was sold by the Paris art dealer Léon Gauchez to the banker and art collector Alphonse James de Rothschild, after whose death it was inherited by his son, Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild. In 1940 it was seized from his hotel in Paris by the Nazi Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg  after the German invasion of France.
Between 1881 and 1888, the artwork was sold to Alphonse James de Rothschild, a banker and art collector, through the Parisian dealer Léon Gauchez. After his death, it passed to his son Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild. In 1940, during the German occupation of France, the artwork was seized by the Nazi Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg from Édouard's hotel in Paris.