Sale, Druout, Paris, April 24, 1913, lot 4 as L'Heure de l'Absinthe.
Private collection, Frenkfurt, prior to WWII
Private collection, New York, by descent from above
Private collection, Austin, Texas
Paris, Salon de 1909, Grand Palais, no. 73, illustrated p. 177 (as Au Bar)
Charles Dauzats, "M Fallieres au Grand Palais," Le Figaro, April 14, 1909, p. 2.
R.M. Ferry, "Le Salon de la Société Nationale," l'Eclair, April 14, 1909, p. 2.
Henri Fritsch-Estrangin, "Painting at the Salon of the Société Nationale Des Beaux-Arts," The New York Herald (Edition Européene), April 14, 1909, p. 6.
Furetieres, "Les Salons de 1909. La Société Nationale," Le Soleil, April 14, 1909, p. 2
L Fauxcelles, "Le Salon de la Société National au Grand Palais," Gil Blas, April 14, 1909, p. 1.
H. Aryaud Degeorge, "Les Salons de 1909. Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts," Le XIXe Siecle, April 15, 1909, p. 3.
Tou-Paris, "Blanc Notes Parisien. Vernissage," Le Goulois, April 15, 1909, p.1.
"Société Nationale de Beaux-Arts," L'Illustration, May 1, 1909, p. 307. illustrated.
J.P. Crespelle, Les Meótres de la Belle Epoque, Paris, 1966, p. 11, fig. 9, illustrated.
Offenstadt, Patrick, "Jean Béraud - La Belle Epoque - Une Epoque Rivée: Catalogue Raisonné, p. 220-1, no. 273, illustrated, Cologne: 1999.
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