Provenance

• 1849/1851: probably given to William McNeill Whistler (1836-1900);
• 1900: bequeathed to his wife Helen ('Nellie') Euphrosyne Whistler (1849-1917), London;
• 1905: sold through Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London, to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 59).

Exhibitions

• 1905: 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. 124) as 'Benedictine Monks'.