Edgar Degas

Estate of the Artist (sold: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Degas, 1ère Vente, 6-8th May 1918, lot 54)
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris & New York (purchased at the above sale)
Charles Hovey Pepper, Brookline, Massachusetts (acquired from the above on 5th May 1920)
Stephen Coburn Pepper, Berkeley, California (by descent from the above circa 1950)
Theodore & Frances Tarson (née Pepper), USA (by descent from the above by 1962 and until at least 1979)
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
Acquired from the above in 1987

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, no. 366, illustrated p. 195
Franco Russoli & Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 482, illustrated p. 109
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1962, illustrated in colour pl. 92 (titled Jules Perrot Seated and as dating from circa 1875-79)
Henri Loyrette, Degas, Paris, 1991, mentioned pp. 362, 363, 377 & 536