Provenance

• 1900/1905: owned by Alexander Arnold Hannay (1858-1927) , London.
• 1919: sold by Knoedler, London art dealers, to David Croal Thomson (1855-1930) , Barbizon House, London;
• 1919: sold by him to Henrietta Richardson Hind (Mrs C. Lewis Hind) (b. ca 1862) , London dealer;
• 1920: sold at auction, Anderson Galleries, New York, 5-6 February 1920 (lot 115) as 'The Sea, Pourville, I'.
• 1926: sold at auction, Anderson Galleries, New York, 14 April 1926 (lot 52), and bought by Milch, New York dealers, for $2400 as 'The Sea, Pourville';
• 1929: sold by Milch to Louis Hyde (1866-1934) and his wife Charlotte P. Pruyn Hyde (1867-1963);
• 1952: Charlotte Pruyn Hyde established the Hyde Collection as a public foundation;
• 1963: on her death, the painting passed to The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, as part of The Hyde Collection Trust (Bequest of Charlotte P. Hyde).

It is not known exactly when two paintings of Trouville, this and The Sea, Pourville, No. 2 [YMSM 519], were bought by A. A. Hannay, but he lent one (probably the latter) to exhibitions in London in 1905 and 1912. Hannay probably sold it to Knoedler's (their account numbers were #6403 and #14698).

Exhibitions

• 1905: Possibly in Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 64) as 'The Sea, Pourville'.

A similar seascape, The Sea, Pourville, No. 2 [YMSM 519], also dates from 1899. They belonged to the same owners in 1905 and 1912 it is not clear which one was lent by A. A. Hannay to exhibitions.