Provenance

• 1870s: acquired by Thomas Way (1837-1915), London;
• By 1890s: passed to his son Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913);
• 1905: bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, June 1905;
• 1919: Bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 521).

Exhibitions

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

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