Private Collection, Paris

[Wildenstein & Co., New York]

Sold to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Benoist, San Francisco, ca. 1955

Gift to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1956

Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972

Toledo Museum of Art, May 1950. “Degas: Paintings, Sculptures, Sketches,” no cat. no. (as by Degas, “Man in Dress Coat”). 

Los Angeles County Museum, March 1958. “An Exhibition of Works by Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas,” no. 27 (as by Degas, “Homme en habit (The Impresario)”). 

Denver Art Museum, December 26, 1978–February 18, 1979; New York, Wildenstein Institute, March 14–April 27, 1979; Minneapolis Institute of Art, May 24–July 1, 1979. “Masterpieces of French Art from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,” no. 10 (as by Degas).

Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art Association, June 6–September 27, 1992; Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 15–April 15, 1993; Danville, Blackhawk Museum, May 28–September 1, 1994; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, October 9, 1993–January 3, 1994; Palm Springs Desert Museum, February 10–April 10, 1994. “The Splendid Centuries: 18th and 19th Century French Paintings from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,” no. 18 (as by Degas, “The Impresario (Pierre Ducarre)”).  

Zürich, Kunsthaus, December 2, 1994–March 5, 1995; Tübingen, Kunsthalle, March 18–June 18, 1995. “Degas Portraits,” no. 133 (as by Degas). 

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Legion of Honor), October 12, 2019–February 9, 2020.“James Tissot: Fashion & Faith,” no cat. no. (as by Tissot).

Boggs, Jean S., Portraits by Degas, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962, pgs. 2-3, pl. 95 (as by Degas). 

Coe, Ralph T., “Degas: The Environmental Portrait,” Art News, 61, no. 9 (January 1963), repr. pg. 37 (as by Degas). 

Shapiro, Michael, "Degas and the siamese twins of the Café-Concert: the Ambassadeurs and the Alcazar d'été," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 95, no. 1335 (1980), pg. 155 (as by Degas). 

Varnedoe, Kirk, “The Ideology of the Time: Degas and Photography,” Art in America 68, no. 6 (Summer 1980), pg. 97, fig. 1 (as by Degas). 

Lassaigne, Jaques, and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris: Flammarion, 1974, no. 414 bis (as by Degas).

Brame, Philippe, and Theodore Reff, Degas et son oeuvre: A Supplement, New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1984, pgs. 76, no. 71, 77, repr. (as by Degas).  

Thomson, Richard, “Degas Literature: The Class of 1984” [Review], Master Drawings 23/24, no. 4 (1985), pg. 561 (attributed to Tissot). 

Thomson, Richard, “Edgar Degas. Life and Work” [Review], The Burlington Magazine 130, no. 1020 (1988), pg. 239 (attributed to Tissot). 

Herbert, Robert L., Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988, pgs. 82, fig. 81, 83 (as by Degas).  

Varnedoe, Kirk, A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990, pgs. 116, fig. 112, 282 (as by Degas).

Baumann, Felix, and Marianne Karabelnik, eds., Degas Portraits, exh. cat., London: Merrell Holberton, 1994, pg. 132, no. 133, repr. (as by Degas). 

Bezzola, Tobia, “Portraits and Genre,” in  Degas Portraits, exh. cat., eds. Felix Baumann and Marianne Karabelnik London: Merrell Holberton, 1994, pg. 285, repr. (as by Degas). 

Kleiner, Sarah, “Tissot’s Painting Techniques,” in Tissot: Fashion & Faith, exh. cat., ed. Melissa Buron, San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, pg. 243, fig. 101 (as by Tissot).

Callen, Anthea, “The Impresario: Degas ‒ Or Tissot?,” Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, September 25, 2019: https://www.famsf.org/stories/the-impresario-degas-or-tissot (as by Tissot).