Painted in Brussels in 1824, according to all authorities

Baron Charles-Louis-Jules David (1783-1854), elder son of the painter, Paris, 1825-1854

Baron Jérôme-Frédéric-Paul David (1823-1882), son of the preceding and grandson of the painter, Paris, 1854-1882

[Galerie Goupil, Paris, 1909, according to Georges Wildenstein, 1963]

David David-Weill (1871-1952), before 1925

In storage with other paintings from the David-Weill collection, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1937-1946

Gift to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1947

1937, New York. Wildenstein & Co., Inc. “David-Weill Pictures,” 10 November - 31 December, no. 6.

1940, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “The Development of Impressionism,” 12 January - 28 February, no. 15, repr.

2019-2020, Naples. Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano. "David e Caravaggio : la crudeltà della natura, il profumo dell'ideale," 5 December 2019 - 19 April 2020.

Aimé Thomé de Gamond. Vie de David. Paris: Les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1826, p. 165.

Aimé Thomé de Gamond. Vie de David, premier peintre de Napoléon. Brussels: Grignon, Baudouin Frères and H. Tarlier, 1826, p. 238.

P.-A. Coupin. Essai sur J.-L. David, peintre d’histoire…Paris: J. Renouard, 1827, p. 57.

Jean Du Seigneur. "Appendice à la notice de P. Chaussard sur L. David." Revue Universelle des Arts 18 (1863-1864): p. 366.

Jacques-Louis-Jules David. Le peintre Louis David (1748-1825): Souvenirs et documents inédits. 2 vols. Paris: Victor Havard, 1880-1882, 1:651, repr. vol. 2.

Charles Saunier. Louis David. Paris: H. Laurens, [1903], p. 115.

Gabriel Henriot. "La collection David Weill." L'Amour de l’Art 1, no. 6 (January 1925): p. 6.

Gabriel Henriot. Collection David Weill. 2 vols. Paris: Braun, 1926, pp. 73-74, repr.

Richard Cantinelli. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825. Paris: G. Van Ouest, 1930, p. 116, nos. 161 ("La bonne aventure," 1824), 163 ("Bohémienne et Romaine," 1825).

Klaus Holma. David: Son évolution et son style. Paris: P. Lejay, 1940, p. 130, nos. 167 ("La bonne aventure," 1824), 169 ("Bohémienne et Romaine," 1825), fig. 17 on 98.

Thomas C. Howe. "A Painting by Jacques-Louis David." Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 5, no. 2 (June 1947): pp. 10-13, repr. on 10.

Louis Hautecoeur. Louis David. Paris: La Table Ronde, 1954, p. 272.

Handbook of the Collections: California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1960, p. 64, repr.

Jean-Pierre Cuzin. La diseuse de bonne aventure de Caravage [Musée du Louvre]. Paris: Éd. des Musées Nationaux, 1977, p. 48, no. 127, repr.

John D. Morse. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 96.

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, pp. 148-149, repr.