Provenance
Jules Hetzel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Jules Hetzel Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 26, 1884, no. 92; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1884, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
"Gavarni" in red ink, lower left; "à bon vinaigre" in red ink, lower left; "116" in graphite, upper right; "No 70-" in red crayon, verso; "oeuvres inédités de Gavarni/Hetzel & Cie" red stamp, verso