Provenance

• By 1905: owned by Jacques Émile Blanche (1861-1942);
• 1934: bought from an exhibition, Blanche, His Art and Collection, at the Leicester Galleries, London, by an unknown collector.
• 1940: bought by Scott and Fowles, New York dealers, 23 February;
• 1940: sold in February to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943), New York;
• 1943: bequeathed to Harvard University.

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. 84) as 'Mrs Leyland'.
• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 123b).