By descent within the artist's family to,

Gaspard-Louis, Duke of C🔴lermont🤡-Tonnerre (d. 1889),

by family descent until,

Professor Théophile Alajouanine (d. 1980),

his executor's sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 30 March 1981, lot 🍒34;

with Edwin Bucher, Trogen

Evreux, 1864

Paris, 1867

This poꦗrtrait was one of twenty-four works by Bernard that were included in the executor's sale of Professor Alajouanine held in Paris in 1981.