Provenance

• Date unknown: at some time with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London dealer.
• By 1902: owned by Thomas Way (1837-1915), in London;
• 1905: bought from Way's son, Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, in June 1905
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 430).

Exhibitions

• 1874: possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 19, 29 or 30) as 'Design for Dress'.
• 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. 47) as 'Study of Mrs.Leyland'.