The artist
[Consigned to Edward Mikhailovich Grundwalt, St. Louis, Missouri, ca. 1903] [1]
[Transferred, by Grundwalt, to New York, New York, 1905]
Taken into custody by the U.S. Bureau of Customs, New York, 1906 [2]
[Transferred from Grundwalt to Henry I. Kowalsky, 17 March 1906] [3]
[Transferred, by Kowalsky, to warehouse in Toronto, Canada, April 1908]
[Transferred, by Kowalsky, to a warehouse in Oakland and consigned to Richard Partington, California, 1910] [4]
Seized by San Francisco Collector of Customs, 1910 [5]
Sold, by the Treasury Department, United States of America, through public auction, San Francisco, 5 February 1912
[Purchased by Frank Havens, San Francisco]
Sold to M.H. de Young (1849-1925), San Francisco, ca. 1916
Bequest to the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1926
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972

Paris, Palais des Champs–Elysées, 1891. “Salon de 1891,” no. 1105 (as “Toilette de la mariée”).

Chicago, May 1–October 30, 1893. “World's Columbian Exposition,” no. 69 (as “The Bride’s Attire”).

San Francisco, January 27–July 5, 1894. “California Midwinter International Exposition,” no. 687 (as “The Toilet of a Bride”).

St. Louis, MO, April 30–December 1, 1904. “Louisiana Purchase Exposition,” no.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Legion of Honor), July 27–September 29, 1991. “The Russian Bride,” no cat. no (focused collection exhibition).

Rod, Edouard, “Les Salons de 1891 au Champ–de–Mars et aux Champs–Elysées,” Gazette des Beaux–Arts, 30, no. 3 (1891), pg. 457.

Bancroft, Hubert Howe, The Book of the Fair and Historical and Descriptive Presentation of the World’s Science, Art, and Industry as viewed through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, vol. 2, Chicago and San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1893, pgs. 757, 780, repr.

Vies, Halsey C., World's Columbian Exposition Official Catalogue; Part X Art Galleries and Annexes, Chicago, 1893, p. 137, no. 69 (as “The Bride’s Attire”).

Babad, Nathan A.,“Russia at the Fair,” Overland Monthly 23, no. 136 (April 1894), repr. pg. 423, pg. 429.

Stanton, J.A., “Impressions of the Art Display,” Overland Monthly 23, no. 136 (April 1894), pg. 404.

Photographs of Paintings in the Fine Arts Building, California Midwinter International Exposition, 1894 (as “The Toilet of a Bride”).

The Official History of the California Midwinter International Exposition, San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Company, 1894, repr. pg. 120, pg. 124.

Williams, Robert C., Russian Art and American Money; 1900–1940, Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1980, pgs. 43, 80.

Bird, Alan, A History of Russian Painting, Oxford: Phaidon, 1987, pgs. 140–141, fig. 73.

Nash, Steven A., The Russian Bride, Exhibition pamphlet, San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1991, pgs. 1–4.

Bonetti, David, “Palace artworks are Legion,” San Francisco Examiner, August 16, 1991, pg. D–2.

Nash, Steven A., Lynn Federle Orr, Marion C. Stewart, Masterworks of European Painting at the California Legion of Honor, San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1999, pg. 12, repr.

Salmond, Wendy, Russell E. Martin, and Wilfried Zeisler, Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris, Washington D.C.: Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, 2015, repr. pg. 51, fig. 41, repr. pgs. 60–61, pgs. 62, 102, 118, 119.