Provenance

• Before 1904: owned by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904);
• 1904-1905: Executors of James Staats Forbes;
• 1905: bought through William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

• 1903-1904: possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903, (cat. no. 192) and 1904 (cat. no. 4).
• 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. 395).