The artist (d. 1919); probably sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, May 23, 1882, for 600 francs [per Daulte 1971]. Possibly sold at Moore’s Art Galleries, New York, May 6, 1887, lot 92 [per Moore’s Art Gallery sale catalogue 1887, although the Durand-Ruel Archive states “la vente à la ‘Moore’s Art Galleries’: il s’agissait d’une vente fictive (aucun tableau n’a été vendu) destinée à faire de la publicité pour les tableaux apportés par Durand-Ruel à New York,” Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]. Durand-Ruel, New York, by Nov. 14, 1908 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel, New York, 1908), no. 8. For the identification of no. 8 as the Art Institute’s painting, see Dauberville and Dauberville 2007. It is possible that Durand-Ruel acquired the painting by April 1900; see Durand-Ruel, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel, New York, 1900), no. 29]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, Dec. 18, 1915, for $10,200 [per Durand-Ruel Archives, Renoir’s “Fruits du Midi, 1881” (New York Stock no. 115—New York Photo No. A 915), as confirmed by Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 13, 1994, curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago. A purchase receipt on Durand-Ruel letterhead, dated Dec. 21, 1915, includes this painting as one of a number sold by Durand-Ruel, New York, to M. A. Ryerson, photocopy in curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago’]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.