Provenance

• By 1905: owned by Laurence W. Hodson (1864-1933), Compton Hall, Wolverhampton;
• 1906: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 25 June 1906 (lot 137) as 'Studies of Nudes', bought by James Tregaskis (1850-1926), London book and art dealer.
• Date unknown: acquired by Sir William Eden (1849-1915);
• 1915: Eden estate;
• 1918: sold at auction, Eden sale, Christie's, London, 1 March 1918 (lot 133) as 'Studies of female figures', bought by 'Wise' (possibly Wallis, London dealers);
• 1918: sold at auction, Wallis sale, Christie's, London, 10 May 1918 (lot 98) as 'Studies of female figures', bought by Colnaghi, London dealers;
• 1921: sold on 8 January to Scott and Fowles, New York dealers (label Scott & Fowles '5681').
• 1929: given by Philip Hofer (1898-1984) to the Fogg Art Museum.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 367).

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. 163) as 'Studies of Nudes'.