Inscription: Signed (lower right): Henri Matisse

[Bernheim Jeune, Paris, 1919; stock no. 21626; purchased from the artist on June 23, 1919; on consignment to Vildrac; paid Fr 3,000 on January 13, 1920 by Vildrac]; [Galerie Vildrac, Paris, 1919; on consignment to Leicester Galleries; paid Fr 3,250 in January 1920 by Leicester Galleries]; [Leicester Galleries, London, 1919; sold in November 1919, for £131.25, to Davis]; [Brandon Davis, South Africa and London, 1919–23; on consignment to Leicester Galleries; sold on July 26, 1923, for $500, to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, New York (1923–d. 1982; on view at the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1931–82; his bequest to MMA)

London. Leicester Galleries. "Exhibition of Pictures by Henri-Matisse and Sculpture by Maillol," November 15–December 15, 1919, no. 1 (as "La promenade").

New York. Montross Gallery. "Original Paintings, Drawings, and Engravings being Exhibited with the Dial Folio 'Living Art'," January 26–February 14, 1924, unnumbered checklist (as "La Promenade").

Worcester Art Museum. "Exhibition of the Dial Collection of Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings by Contemporary Artists," March 5–30, 1924, no. 23 (as "La Promenade").

Northampton, Mass.. Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College. "The Dial Collection," spring 1924, no catalogue.

New York. The Museum of Modern Art. "Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition," November 3–December 6, 1931, no. 41 (as "Promenade at Nice").

Cambridge, Mass.. Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University. "Matisse: A Museum Course Exhibition," May 9–June 8, 1955, no. 5 (as "La Promenade," lent by the Worcester Art Museum).

Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 62 (as "The Promenade").

Worcester Art Museum. "'The Dial': Arts and Letters in the 1920s," March 7–May 10, 1981, no. 90 (as "The Promenade, Provençal Village").

"Henri-Matisse." Burlington Magazine 35 (December 1919), p. 281.

"The Art of Matisse: A Painter of Life Itself." Times (November 18, 1919), p. 15.

Dial 81 (October 1926), ill. opp. p. 269 (color).

A[lfred]. H. B[arr]., Jr. Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1931, p. 49, no. 41.

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Matisse: His Art and His Public. New York, 1951, p. 559.

Louisa Dresser in The Dial and the Dial Collection. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1959, pp. 79–80, no. 62.

Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold in Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade. Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916–1930. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1986, p. 273 n. 60.

Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville. Matisse: Henri Matisse chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris, 1995, vol. 1, pp. 700–701; vol. 2, pp. 776–77, no. 314, ill.

Rémi Labrusse. "Matisse's Second Visit to London and His Collaboration with the 'Ballets Russes'." Burlington Magazine 139 (September 1997), p. 598 n. 53 (possibly this painting).