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Sold by the artist to Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris on February 22, 1913 for 50,000 francs [see Durand-Ruel stock no. 10253; this and the following information according to Paris 1988]; sent to Durand-Ruel Gallery in New York, 1917; sold to Mrs. Lewis Larned (Annie Swan) Coburn (died 1932), Chicago on January 19, 1932 for $36,000 or $35,000 [see Durand-Ruel stock no. 4114; the date 1932 given in the Durand-Ruel stockbook contradicts a loan receipt, dated January 23, 1930, for a “Millinery Shop, 1882” from Mrs. L.L. Coburn to the Art Institute of Chicago, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Mrs. L.L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Water Colors, April 6, 1932-October 9, 1932, cat. 9 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 286, pl. 53.

Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, Edgar Degas, November 28-Deceber 18, 1933, cat. 8 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 202.

Toledo, Ohio, Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, November 1934, cat. 1.

Springfield, Mass., Museum of Art, French Painting, Cézanne to the Present, December 1935-January 1936, cat. 1.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Degas, November-December 1936, cat. 40 (ill.).

Worcester, Mass., Worcester Art Museum, The Art of The Third Republic, February-March 1941, cat. 4 (ill. on cover).

Cleveland Museum of Art, The Works of Edgar Degas, February 5-March 9, 1947, cat. 38 (ill.).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Painting, November 4, 1950-February 11, 1951, cat. 74 (ill.).

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Edgar Degas: The Reluctant Impressionist, June 21-September 1, 1974, cat. 20 (ill.).

Richmond, Va., The Virginia Museum, Degas, May 23-July 9, 1978, cat. 14 (ill.).

Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-August 31, 1980, cat. 8 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago, July 19-September 23, 1984, cat. 63 (ill.).

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Degas, February 9-May 16, 1988, cat. 235 (ill.), traveled to Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, June 16-August 28, 1988 and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 27, 1988-January 8, 1989.

London, National Gallery, Degas: Beyond Impressionism, May 22-August 26, 1995, cat. 4 (ill.)., traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 28, 1996-January 5, 1997.

Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, loan exhibition, April 1995, no cat.

London, The National Gallery and The Art Institute of Chicago, Degas: Beyond Impressionism, 1996-1997, cat. 4.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, October 1, 1997-January 11, 1998, no cat. no (fig. 96).

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Degas and America: The Early Collectors, cat. 54 (ill.), traveled to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 16-September 9, 2001, shown in Minneapolis only.

Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Still-Life Painting, September 22, 2001-January 13, 2002, no cat. no (pl. 60), traveled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, February 17-June 9, 2002.

Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 41 (ill.).