Commissioned by (or offered by the artist to) the child's mother, comtesse de Montesquiou Fezensac, née Louise Charlotte Françoise Le Tellier de Louvois-Courtanvaux de Montmirail de Creuzy (1765-1835), Paris and Château de Courtanvaux; Thence by descent to her son, comte Ambroise Anatole Augustin de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1788-1878); Thence by descent to his son, comte Wladimir-Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1830-1887); Thence by descent to his son, comte Louis-Paul-Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1857-1919) and his wife, Claude-Étiennette- Marie-Octavie Vincent-de-Paul de Sauvan d'Aramon (1864-1936); Thence by inheritance to private collectors; With Galerie Éric Turquin, Paris; Joseph Baillo, New York; Sotheby's, New York (A Scholar Collects), January 31, 2024, lot 7, where acquired.

Neil Jeffares, "Census of pastels of Vigée Le Brun" in Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800, p. 12;

Neil Jeffares, "Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun," Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, London 2006, online edition [http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/VigeeLeBrun.pdf], accessed 31 May 2023, cat. no. J.76.301, reproduced; Joseph Baillio and Xavier Salmon, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, exh. cat., Paris, 2015, pp. 197-199, 353, no. 70, reproduced p. 199 (entry by Joseph Baillo); Joseph Baillio, Katherine Baetjer, and Paul Lang, eds., Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, exh. cat., New York and Ottawa 2016, pp. 83-85, 244, cat. no. 15, reproduced p. 84 (entry by Joseph Baillo).