Provenance

• Before 1928: owned by Hubert Maitland Budgett (1882-1951), Master of Hounds, Kirtlington Park, Oxford;
• 1928: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1928 (lot 303, repr.) as 'A girl full length standing turned to the right leaning on a rail' and bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers (#A5223);
• 1928: Kennedy, New York dealers, took half shares on 1 December 1928;
• 1929: sold by Kennedy, probably to Charles Sessler (1854-1935), Philadelphia dealer;
• 1929: bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), 28 March 1929;
• 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC;
• 1980: transferred from Alverthorpe to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.