Portrait of a Young Man

Created by an artist identified as French 18th Century, the work is dated possibly to circa 1770. The painting's earliest documented ownership traces to Félix Doistau in Paris by 1907, who lent it to an exhibition that year. It was subsequently sold at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris during June 1909 as a portrait of an unknown man attributed to Fragonard.

Following this sale, the work entered the collection of Dr. Théodore Tuffier by 1921, where it remained until his death in 1929. The painting later passed through the Jacques Seligmann and Co. gallery, which facilitated its acquisition by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New York in March 1952. Finally, the work was gifted to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1961 as part of the Kress Collection.

The painting is held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., as part of the Samuel H. Kress Collection. It was gifted to the museum in 1961 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, which had acquired it from Jacques Seligmann and Co., Inc. in March 1952.

The work has a documented exhibition history dating back to 1907, when it was lent by Félix Doistau. Subsequent lenders included Dr. Théodore Tuffier, who exhibited it in 1921 and 1926, and possibly his family, who may have lent it to a 1945 exhibition.