Estate of the artist
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4-5 February 1884, lot 46 (consigned by the above)
Jacques-Emile Blanche, Paris (acquired from the above sale)
Georges Mévil-Blanche, Paris (acquired by descent from the above circa 1942)
Christie’s, London, 1 July 1975, lot 2 (consigned by the above)
Christie’s, New York, 13 November 1984, lot 102
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner 

Théodore Duret, Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son œuvre, Paris, 1902, no. 27, p. 238
Julius Meier-Graefe, Edouard Manet, Munich, 1912, p. 321
Adolphe Tabarant, Manet. Histoire catalographique, Paris, 1931, no. 36, p. 62
Paul Jamot, Georges Wildenstein and Marie-Louise Bataille, Manet, vol. I, Paris, 1932, no. 25; vol. II, p. 8, illustrated 
Daniel Catton Rich, "The Spanish Background for Manet’s Early Work," Parnassus, vol. 4, no. 2, February 1932, p. 3
Elie Lambert, "Manet et l’Espagne," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. IX, Paris, June 1933, p. 372
Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, 1947, no. 30, p. 602, illustrated
Jean Babelon, "La España de Manet y el Manet de España," Clavileño: Revista de la Asociacion Internacional de Hispanismo, vol. III, 1952, p. 17
Nils Gösta Sandblad, Manet: Three studies in artistic conception, Lund, 1954, p. 37
H. G. Gardiner, "Manet’s Mental Museum," Art News, vol. 65, no. 7, New York, November 1966, p. 50, illustrated (dated 1860)
Alan Bowness, "Manet at Philadelphia," Burlington Magazine, vol. CIX, no. 768, March 1967, p. 189
Pheobe Pool and Sandra Orienti, The Complete Paintings of Manet, New York, 1967, no. 24
Merete Bodelson, "Early Impressionist Sales 1874-1894 in the light of some unpublished 'procès-verbaux'," Burlington Magazine, vol. CX, no. 783, June 1968, no. 46, p. 342
Denis Rouart and Sandra Orienti, Tout l'œuvre peint d'Edouard Manet, Paris, 1970, no. 24, p. 88-89, illustrated (dated 1860)
Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Édouard Manet, catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Lausanne and Paris, 1975, no. 25, p. 44, illustrated (dated circa 1860)
Beatrice Farwell, Manet and the Nude. A Study in Iconography in the Second Empire, New York and London, 1981, p. 58, fig. 36, p. 370, illustrated
Peter Rudd, "Reconstructing Manet's 'Velázquez in His Studio'," The Burlington Magazine, no. 136, London, 1994, pp. 747-51
Beth Archer Brombert, Edouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat, Chicago, 1996, p. 88
Hans Körner, Edouard Manet. Dandy, Flaneur, Maler, Munich, 1996, fig. 15, p. 226, illustrated (titled Velázquez in seinem Atelier and dated 1860)
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting, 2002-03, fig. 9.8, p. 208, illustrated in colour (dated circa 1859-60)
Exh. Cat., Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Manet en el Prado, 2003-04, fig. 59, p. 144, illustrated in colour (dated 1865-1870)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée d'Orsay and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manet/ Degas, 2023-24, p. 45, illustrated in colour 

 

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, D'après les maîtres, 1910, no. 106
London, The Leicester Galleries, Jacques-Emile Blanche. His art and his collection, 1939, no. 61, illustrated (titled A visit to Velasquez' Studio)
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Manet, 1961, no. 4 (dated circa 1852 and with incorrect dimensions)
Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Edouard Manet, 1966-67, no. 7, p. 12, illustrated in colour and p. 42, illustrated (dated 1860)
Troyes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Renoir et ses Amis, 1969, no. 69 (dated 1860)