Puran Chand Nahar, Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), India, by 1933 [Banerji 1933]. With William H. Wolff, New York, by Nov. 3, 1973 [this and the following according to invoice from William H. Wolff, Nov. 3, 1973; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, Nov. 3, 1973 [on long-term loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 8, 1983]; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [ publicly promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997; signed a promised gift agreement for the work, 2002]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.