W. P. Wright, New Jersey, by 1876; his sale Henry H. Leeds & Miner, New York, March 18, 1867, no. 29. John Taylor Johnston; his sale, New York, December 19 1876, no. 48 to S. Colman for $750; [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]; Samuel Colman, N.A., New York; his sale American Art Association, New York, March 25, 1903, lot 58 as “Dante and Virgil Crossing the Styx” for $850 [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in The Frick Art Reference Library, New York]. Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago [according to Art Institute of Chicago 1921]; his widow, Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918); by descent to their sons Honoré and Potter Palmer; given by them to the Art Institute, 1922.