The artist; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, July 8, 1881, for 600 francs [per John Collins to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 28, 1997, copy in curatorial object file. See also Colin B. Bailey, with the assistance of John B. Collins, Renoir’s Portraits: Impressions of an Age, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Canada/Yale University Press, 1997), p. 308, n. 8.]. Alphonse Legrand, Paris, by November 21, 1887 [this and the two following per John Rewald, “Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists,” Gazette des beaux-arts 81, 1248 (Jan. 1973), p. 14; and Rewald, “Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists—II,” Gazette des beaux-arts 81, 1249 (Feb. 1973), p. 103]; sold to Boussod, Valadon & Cie (Theo van Gogh), Paris, November 21, 1887, for 200 francs; sold to Guyotin, Paris, Nov. 22, 1887, for 350 francs; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Mar. 21, 1892, for 1,300 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1891 (no. 2064, as Déjeuner de canotiers), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; transferred from Durand-Ruel, Paris, to Durand-Ruel, New York, Mar. 22, 1892. [per Anne Distel, “Oarsmen (known as Luncheon by the River),” in Hayward Gallery, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renoir, exh. cat. (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985), p. 216. Also noted by John Collins; see John Collins to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 28, 1997, curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago]; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, Apr. 9, 1892, for $1,100 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1888–93 (no. 932, as Déjeuner de canotiers), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; by descent to the Palmer family; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.