The artist, possibly still in 1867 [1]
Henri Puvis de Chavannes, by 1929
[Sold jointly to Durand-Ruel, New York and Wildenstein & Co., 30 July 1929]
[Deposited at Durand-Ruel on behalf of Durand-Ruel and Wildenstein & Co.] [2]
Sold to Dr. T. Edward Hanley, Bradford, Pennsylvania, 29 September 1941
Gift to the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1969
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972

[1] This may have been the self-portrait lent by the artist to Paris 1867, no. 81.

[2] Stock no. 5143, depot no. 13627, photo no. 10930, 44 x 34 cm.

Ghent, Belgium, 1868. “Exposition Nationale et Triennale (Salon),” no. 1026. 

New York, Wildenstein Gallery, December 2, 1948–January 8, 1949. “A Loan Exhibition of Gustave Courbet,” no. 6.

New York, Gallery of Modern Art (Huntington Hartford Collection), January 3–March 12, 1967; Philadelphia Museum of Art, April 6–May 28, 1967. “Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, Bradford, Pennsylvania,” no cat. no. 

Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, November 7–December 15, 1968. “Works from the Hanley Collection,”  no. 56.

Buffalo, Canisius College,  November 23–December 23, 1969. “Works from the Hanley Collection at Canisius College,” no. 126.

San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, October 21–December 6, 1970. “The Dr. T. Edward and Tullah Hanley Memorial Collection,” no. 87.

Exposition Nationale et Triennale de Gand: Notice sur les Tableaux et Objets d’Arts, exh. cat., Gand: Imprimerie de Eug.Vanderheghen, 1868, pg. 96, no. 1026. 

Riat, Georges, Gustave Courbet, Paris: H. Floury, 1906, pg. 262.

A Loan Exhibition of Gustave Courbet, exh. cat., New York: Wildenstein, 1948, pg. 41, no. 6, repr. on the frontispiece. 

Léger, Charles, Courbet et Son Temps, Paris: Les Éditions Universelles, 1948, fig. 1, opposite pg. 82. 

Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, exh. cat., New York: The Gallery of Modern Art, 1967, repr. pg. 25, pg. 61. 

Works from the Hanley Collection, exh. cat., Columbus, Ohio: The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, 1968, no. 56.

Works from the Hanley Collection at Canisius College, exh. cat., Buffalo, N.Y.: Canisius College, 1969, pg. 12, no. 126, repr. 

Forges, Marie-Thérèse de, Autoportraits de Courbet, exh. cat., Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1973, pg. 44, no. 55, repr. [photographic reproduction of the portrait was displayed at the exhibition]. 

Fernier, Robert, La vie et l'œuvre de Gustave Courbet, vol. 2, Paris: Fondation Wildenstein, 1978, pg. 14, no. 542, repr. 

Courthion, Pierre, L’opera completa di Courbet, Milan: Rizzoli, 1985, no. 527, repr. 

Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate, ed. and trans., Letters of Gustave Courbet, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992, pgs. 484, no. 73-14 [F. 542], 487, no. 73-18 [F. 542], 624, no. ND-5 [F. 542].

Huys, Jean-Philippe, “Tableaux de Gustave Courbet Exposés en Belgique de 1851 à 1872,” in Gustave Courbet et la Belgique, ed. Brigitte de Patoul, exh. cat., Bruxelles: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 2013, pg. 83, fig. 46.