Private Collection, Belgium (acquired as a gift from the artist circa 1936)

Private Collection, Belgium (acquired by descentꦛ from the above)

Christie's, London, 1 December 1987, lot 152a (c♋onsigned by th𒆙e above)

Private Collection (acquired circa 1988)

Christie's, London, 2🐬4 June 2008, lot 73 (consigned🎐 by the above)

Private Collection, New Yo🔯rk (acquired from the above sale)

Private Collection, California (acquired fromꦛ the above in 2014)

Christie’s,ﷺ London, 27 February 20♏19, lot 116 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

David Sylvester, ed., René Magritte: Catalogue raisonné, Oil Paintings and Objects, 1931-1948, ไvol. I❀I, London, 1993, no. 391, p. 213, illustrated

Robert Hugues, Magritte en poche, Anvers, 2009, p. 157, illustrated

Brussels, Galerie Vedovi, Le Surréalisme, 1997, pp.20- 21, illustrated in colour

Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Magritte, 1898-1967, 1998, no. 108, p. 126, illustrated🐭 in colour (dated 1935)

Tate Liverpool and Vienna, Albertina, René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, 2011-12, p. 84, illustrated in colour

Virginia, The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Joseph Cornell and Surrealism, 2014