Clara Gauguin, wife of the artist’s son, Copenhagen. Bekgaard, Copenhagen.{1} Sold at (Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen) in 1936;{2} Axel Bruun, Copenhagen. {3} L. (Louis) F. Foght, Copenhagen; Sold at (Sotheby’s, London) in 1960;{4} (John Mitchell, London);{5} Mr. and Mrs. Kurt F. Pantzer [1892-1979], Indianapolis, in 1960;{6} Bequest of Kurt F. Pantzer to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1982 (82.54).

{1}This early provenance is found in Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin: A Savage in the Making – Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings (1873-1888), vol. 1, Paris, Milan, 2002, cat. no. 13.
{2} Merete Bodelsen notes that this painting was lot. no. 51 at auction at Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen, 1 April 1936 (auction no. 196), and that it sold to Axel Bruun, Copenhagen. See Meret Bodelsen, “The Dating of Gauguin’s Early Paintings,” Burlington Magazine, vol. 107 (June 1965), p. 310.
{3}See footnote above.
{4}Sotheby’s, London, Catalogue of Important Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part II, including…The Property of the late Louis Foght, 6 July 1960, lot no. 167 (ill.) Although the first Wildenstein catalogue raisonné, Gauguin: Catalogue I, Paris, 1964, lists the name Johan Rohde as a former owner, this was not the case. (Paintings owned by the late Mrs. Asa Johan Rohde were present in the 6 July 1960 sale at Sotheby’s which may account for this confusion.)
{5}The list of “Prices and Buyers’ Names” identifies John Mitchell as the buyer of lot. no. 167.
{6}For biographical material on Pantzer, see A Passionate Eye and a Public Spirit: Kurt F. Pantzer and the J.M.W. Turner Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1992.