Provenance

• By 1903: acquired by Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London;
• 1905: bought in July by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 891).

Exhibitions

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

By the terms of Freer's will the work cannot be lent to another venue.