Provenance

• Date unknown: acquired by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904);
• 1904: passed to his executors;
• 1904: on 7 June, Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, left a bid with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer, for 14 drawings from the Forbes collection;
• 1905: Freer 's offer was accepted (Freer Diary; 24 July 1905);
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

The early provenance is unknown. For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 419).

Exhibitions

• 1904: 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, Goupil Gallery, London, 1904 (cat. no. 12) as 'The Ermine Coat'.
• 1904: Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also pictures lent by the executors of the late James Staats Forbes and others, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904 (cat. no. 256) as 'The Sable Jacket'