Provenance

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

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 924).

Exhibitions

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

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