Walter Gay [1856-1937], Paris by 1904.{1} Possibly Jules Strauss, Paris.{2} Germain Seligmann of (J. Seligmann et Fils, Paris and New York) by 1931;{3} (Pierre F. Nesi, Beverly Hills, California); {4} purchased by G.H.A. [George Henry Alexander] Clowes [1877-1958] in 1947;{5} Clowes Family Foundation, Indianapolis, and on long-term loan to the Indianapolis Museum of Art since 1971 (C10028).

{1}The American painter Walter Gay resided in France, and loaned the painting to the Exposition des Primitifs Français au Palais du Louvre, Paris, 1904, cat. no. 177. The painting is included in Anne Dubois de Groër, Corneille de La Haye dit Corneille de Lyon, Paris, 1996, cat. no. 119 (ill.)
{2}Provenance information provided by both Seligman and Nesi give Jules Strauss, a major collector of Impressionism, as a former owner. However, e-mail correspondence with his grandson Michel Strauss in December 2010 revealed that the painting is not listed in Jules Strauss’s notebooks still in the possession of his grandson.
{3}The painting was loaned by Seligmann to an exhibition “Art through the Ages” at the Cleveland Museum of Art in fall 1931. Although there was no catalogue for this exhibition, files in the Registration Department confirm this painting’s inclusion in the exhibition; correspondence with Cleveland Museum of Art, December 2010, in Provenance file (C10028).
{4}The painting is documented as being sold by Seligmann to Nesi in the Jacques Seligmann & Co. records at the Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., Box 180, folder “G.H.A. Clewes (sic)”; see copy in Provenance file (C10028).
{5} Bill of sale from Nesi to Clowes, dated 26 July 1947; see Clowes Archive, Indianapolis Museum of Art (C10028).