1853
92.9 x 68.2 cm (36 9/16 x 26 7/8 in.) stretcher: 105.5 x 75.5 cm (41 9/16 x 29 3/4 in.)
Alfred Morrison, England, by 1878; Mrs. Mary Davis, London, by 1907; Sir Edmund Davis, J.P., London; his sale, Christie's, London, July 7, 1939, no. 29 (£90.6); acquired at that sale through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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