In the possession of the artist, Charles François Daubigny (died 1878); sold, his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 6, 1878, lot 172, as Remorqueur près du Havre. Robert Churchill Vose and Nathaniel Morton Vose, Boston, by 1917; sold, American Art Galleries, New York, April 4, 1917, lot 91, as French Tug-Boat, for $280 to Francis Ralston Welsh, Devon, Penn. [American Art Association record book for 1917]; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 26, 1938, lot 500 to Hannah D. Rabinowitz [according to Sotheby’s fax dated September 16, 2003, in curatorial file]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, March 1, 1945, lot 126, to Fine Arts Associates [according to Sotheby’s fax cited above]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, by October 1945 [see New York 1945 exh. cat.]. John J. Ireland (died 1968), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.