Provenance

• 1886/1892: 'selected' by Whistler and probably bought by Ross Revillon Winans (1850-1912), Baltimore, Maryland.
• 1914: with Albert Louis Roullier (1858-1920), Albert Rouillier Art Galleries, Chicago
• By 1915: bought by Marshall Field III (1893-1956), Chicago;
• By 1938: owned by his ex-wife, Evelyn M. Field, later Mrs Diego Suarez (1888–1979).
• 1962: bought in March from F. W. Woolworth by Knoedler's, New York dealers;
• 1964: sold in June to Shirley Latter Schlesinger Kaufmann (Mrs Robert B. Kaufmann) (1916-2003).
• 2013: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to Colby College Museum of Art.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 771).

Exhibitions

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 17) as 'Under the Frari'.