Provenance

• 1870s: acquired by Whistler's lithographer, Thomas Way (1837-1915);
• 1905: sold by his son, Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), June 1905;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 512).

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. 111, repr.) as 'Baby Leyland'.

By the terms of C. L. Freer's will, this drawing can not be lent to other venues.