Jules Dupré, France
Galeries Georges Petit Paris, 30 January 1890, lot 141 (consigned by the above)
Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Paris
E. J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam (acquired by 1896)
Alfred Atmore Pope, Farmington, Connecticut (acquired by 1910)
Theodate Pope Riddle, Farmington, Connecticut (by descent from the above)
Durand-Ruel, New York (acquired from the above on 21 May 1936 and until at least 1949)
Sam Salz, New York
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Goldman, New York (acquired by 1961)
Christie’s London, 15 June 2011, lot 219
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Arsène Alexandre, Honoré Daumier- l'Homme et l' oeuvre, Paris, 1888, p. 375
John La Farge & August F. Jaccaci, "The Bibliography of the Collection of Mr. Alfred Atmore Pope", in Bibliography of the Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections, New York, circa 1910, p. 4, illustrated
Emil Waldmann, Kunst und Künstler, 1910, p. 93
Erich Klossowski, Honoré Daumier, Munich, 1923, no. 177H, p. 102
K. E. Maison, Pantheon, issue no. XIX, July/August 1961, fig. 5, p. 207
K. E. Maison, Honoré Daumier: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, London,  vol. I, 1968, no. 140, pl. 115, illustrated
Bruce Laughton, Honoré Daumier, New Haven, 1996, pl. 130, p. 106, illustrated (dated circa 1868-70)

(possibly) Paris, Durand-Ruel, 1878, no. 26 (titled Un Avocat sortant du Palais and with inverted measurements)
New York, Durand-Ruel, Small Masterpieces of Late 19th Century French Art, 1939, no. 16
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, From David to Courbet, 1950, no. 92
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art (on loan)
London, Tate Gallery, Daumier: Paintings and Drawings, 1961, no. 84, illustrated pl. 18c (titled Members of the Bar)
Berlin, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Daumier ist ungeheuer!, 2013, no. 5.12, p. 146
New York, Michael Altman Fine Art, In Pursuit of Timeless Quality, 2016, illustrated