Provenance

• 1971: four drawings were sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1971 (lot 1) and bought by D'Offay, London art dealer;
• 1971: bought by Ernest Johns for Knoedler's, art dealers, and transferred to New York in 1973;
• 1975: sold in September by Knoedler's, to a private collector.

The earlier provenance is unknown. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 206).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.