Paper label on back of frame (Duveen Brothers inventory number): 29116

London, Charles Wertheimer

Herbert Stern

Paris (?), Lord Michelham, K.C.V.O., before 1912

New York, Duveen Brothers (dealer)

purchased by Grosse Pointe, MI, Anna Thomson Dodge, 1935

by whom bequethed to the DIA in 1971.

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François Boucher; Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory, Tapestry Panels Mounted in a Later Screen, c. 1760, Wool and silk (in modern frame of gilded wood). Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.181.