• 1947: in collection of Joan Whitney Payson 
• 1975: in collection of John Whitney Payson 
• 1987: in collection of Alan Bond 
• 11 November 1987: auctioned at Sotheby's New York (lot 25) and sold to Alan Bond 
• 1990: in collection of J. Paul Getty Museum 
• 1990: purchased by J. Paul Getty Museum at the sale of the collection of Sotheby's New York 

• Salon des Indépendants, Salle de la Société d'Horticulture, Paris, 3 September 1889–4 October 1889, cat. no.  273
• Exposition Vincent van Gogh, Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, 15 March 1901–31 March 1901, cat. no.  31
• Exposition rétrospective: Vincent van Gogh (Salon des Indépendants), Grandes Serres de la Ville de Paris, 24 March 1905–30 April 1905, cat. no.  32
• Cinquante ans de peinture française, 1875-1925, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 28 May 1925–12 June 1925, cat. no.  79
• L'Époque française de Van Gogh, Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, June 1927–July 1927
• Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh, The Museum of Modern Art, Category:New York, November 1929, cat. no.  95
• Exposition d'oeuvres importantes de grand maîtres du dix-neuvième siècle, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 18 May 1931–27 June 1931, cat. no.  44
• L'Impressionnisme, Palais des beaux-arts, City of Brussels, 29 September 1935, cat. no.  95
• Van Gogh: Exposition internationale de 1937, Groupe I, Classe III, Category:Palais de Tokyo, Paris, June 1937–October 1937, cat. no.  41
• Paintings by Van Gogh, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 18 September 1942–18 October 1942, cat. no.  19
• Paintings by Van Gogh, Category:Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 28 October 1942–28 November 1942, cat. no.  19
• The Art and Life of Vincent van Gogh, Wildenstein & Company, Category:New York, 6 October 1943–7 November 1943, cat. no.  44
• Van Gogh: Fourteen Masterpieces, Knoedler & Company, Category:New York, 30 March 1948–17 April 1948, cat. no.  11
• Trends in European Painting, 1880 - 1930, The Century Association, Category:New York, 1949, cat. no.  5
• From Goya to Wyeth: The Joan Whitney Payson Collection, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 13 September 1980–12 October 1980, cat. no.  33
• From Goya to Wyeth: The Joan Whitney Payson Collection, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 17 October 1980–9 December 1980, cat. no.  33
• A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape / L'impressionnisme et le paysage français, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 28 June 1984–16 September 1984, cat. no.  90
• A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape / L'impressionnisme et le paysage français, Art Institute of Chicago, 23 October 1985–6 January 1985, cat. no.  90
• A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape / L'impressionnisme et le paysage français, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 8 February 1985–22 April 1985, cat. no.  90
• Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Category:New York, 25 November 1986–22 March 1987, cat. no.  1
• Irises and Five Masterpieces, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 29 June 1989–9 July 1989
• Irises and Five Masterpieces, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 July 1989–23 July 1989
• Irises and Five Masterpieces, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 28 July 1989–6 August 1989
• Irises and Five Masterpieces, Category:National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 11 August 1989–20 August 1989
• Irises and Five Masterpieces, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 25 August 1989–3 September 1989
• Vincent's Irises, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 19 January 1999–21 March 1999
• Van Gogh's Iris: Masterpiece in Focus, Category:National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 11 June 1999–19 September 1999

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Catalogues raisonnés:

• F608: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 608 .
• JH1691 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no.  1691.
  

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