Estate of the artist; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 22-27, 1864, Delacroix estate sale, to Isidore Pils (1813/15-1875) [inscription inside front cover]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 20, 1876, lot 1121, as Soixante-huit dessins et aquarelles. Louis Becq de Fouquières (1831-1887) [Joachim 1978]. Sold by Bernard Lorenceau, Paris, after 1966, to Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zürich [letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt dated January 5, 2004 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1970.