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Provenance:

Collection of Mary Bunker Cotten Hoyt (sister of the artist)

To Muriel Gurdon Cotten Brotherton (her daughter), 1944

To Gurdon Saltonstall Brotherton (her son), 1967

To Graham Williford, New York, 1970

To Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, by March 1974 (per American Art Review advertisement)

To New York Estate

To Christie's, New York, 2000

To private collection, Westchester, New York

Labels:

1. Godel and Co. label
2. New Britain Museum of American Art label
3. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc. label and stamp
4. Davis and Long Company label
5. Brooklyn Museum sticker

Literature:

1. J.I. Edwards, "Dennis Miller Bunker Rediscovered," 19th Century Magazine, Spring 1978, p. 74, illustrated
2. W. H. Gerdts, American Impressionism, New York, 1984, pp. 83-4, illustrated
3. H. B. Weinberg, The American Pupils of Jean-Leon Gérôme, Fort Worth, Texas, 1984, p. 91, illustrated
4. H. B. Weinberg, The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth Century American Painters and Their French Teachers, New York, 1991, p. 125
5. H. B. Weinberg, D. Bolger, and D. P. Curry, American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915, New York, 1994, p. 348, illustrated
6. E. E. Hirschler, Dennis Miller Bunker, American Impressionist, Boston, Massachusetts, 1994, p. 29, illustrated as Fig. 7

Exhibitions:

1. Society of American Artists, New York, NY, May - June 1884, no. 18
2. Twelfth Annual Interstate Industrial Exhibition of Chicago, IL, September - October 1884, no. 363
3. Exhibition of Paintings by Dennis M. Bunker, Noyes & Blakeslee Galleries, Boston, MA, 1885, no. 7 (as Bank of the Oise)
4. Exhibition of the Pictures of Dennis Miller Bunker, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA, January - February 1891, no. 40 (as The Banks of the Oise)
5. Painting in America, Yesterday and Tomorrow, Decorative Arts Center, New York, Winter 1973
6. Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890) Rediscovered, arranged by the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, April 1 - May 17, 1978, no. 9 (as On the Banks of the Oise); exhibition traveled to Davis & Long Company, New York, NY, June 7 - June 30, 1978