George Lutz, Paris, by 1893 (?)

Lutz sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 26-27 May 1902, no. 16 [1]

Mme J. Brasseur, Lille

Brasseur sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 13 March 1920, no. 11, repr. [2]

C. Picard, Paris

[Jacques Seligmann, Paris, 1922]

Mrs. Henry Walters, Baltimore

Walters sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 30 April 1941, no. 976

Gift of H. K. S. Williams to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1941


[1] As "Portrait of the son of the painter" by Louis-Léopold Boilly.
[2] As "Presumed portrait of a son of the artist" by Boilly.

1893, Paris. “Exposition des portraits du siècle,” no. 102.

1900, Paris. “Exposition universelle de 1900: Exposition rétrospective de l'art français des origines à 1800.”

1950, The Detroit Institute of Arts. “French Painting from David to Courbet,” 1 February - 5 March, no. 12.

1961, University of California at Los Angeles Art Galleries. “French Masters: Rococo to Romanticism,” 5 March - 18 April, p. 31, repr.

1966, Milwaukee Art Center. “The Inner Circle,” 15 September - 23 October, no. 14, repr.

1982, San Francisco. The de Young Museum. “16 Paintings in Search of an Artist,” 28 August - 14 November, no catalog.

Henry Harrisse. L.-L. Boilly. Paris: Société de Propagation des Livres d'Art, 1898, no. 665 ("Portrait of a little boy").

Paul Marmottan. Le peintre Louis Boilly. Paris: H. Gateau, 1913, p. 231.

Illustrated Handbook of the Collections: California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1942, p. 47, repr.

Illustrated Handbook of the Collections: California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1944, p. 51, repr.

Illustrated Handbook of the Collections: California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1946, p. 56, repr.

Handbook of the Collections: California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1960, p. 65, repr.

William Davenport. Art Treasures in the West. Menlo Park, CA: Lane Magazine & Book Company, 1966, p. 156.

Pierre Rosenberg and Marion C. Stewart. French Paintings 1500-1825: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987, p. 337, repr.