Provenance

• Before 1879: given by Whistler to Thomas Way (1837-1915), London;
• 1905: sold in June by his son, Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 682).

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. 203, repr.) as 'Portrait of the Artist'.

Due to the terms of Freer's will, the drawing can not be lent to another venue.