Provenance

• By 1890: owned by Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (b. ca 1829-d.1891);
• 1892: possibly one of 'Two sketches' sold at auction, Christie's, London, 27 February 1892 (lot 31) and bought by 'Thomas'.
• 1937: probably sold by Maggs, London, 1937 (lot 123) as 'Nocturne Salute'.
• Date unknown: bought from the Castano Galleries, Boston, by Steven Juvelis (1921-1994);
• 1962: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 22 July 1962 (lot 9) as 'Venice' and bought by Colnaghi's, London dealers;
• Date unknown: sold to R. Hyran Swetzoff, Boston;
• Date unknown: bought by G. S. Abrams, but later exchanged for another drawing.
• 1967: bought from Robert Light, Boston dealer, by the Baltimore Museum of Art.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 735).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.