Sale, New York, Christie's, 25 January 2005, lot 205 (as The Emperor and members of his court shooting in a range);

with Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd., London, Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, 2006, no. 41;

William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York (acquired from the above in 2006)🥃💎,

The Louis-Dreyfus Fܫamily Collections (by descent 💖from the above in 2016)

Hamburg, Le Claire Kunst, ‘A World caught with the eye and held by the pencil’: Drawings by Adolph Menzel, 2019, Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, no. 4

As proposed by Stephen Ongpin (see Provenance) this large and finely preserved sheet may have been drawn at a shooting club which Menzel is known to have visited in the 1840s, in the city of Liegnitz in his native Silesia. Given the impressive margins of the sheet, it may have been intended as a design for a lithograph or wood engraving, although no print of this subject is known to survive. The dedication written in the artist's distinctive handwriting in the margins of the drawing may be approximately translated as 'Would you give this little doodle a small resting place somewhere in your portfolios? With heartfelt respects, Menzel.'