Provenance
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1903: with Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd, London art dealers.
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Date unknown: acquired by John Prince Elton (1865-1948), Waterbury, Connecticut;
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1948-1984: passed by family descent to J. P. Elton's grand-daughter;
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1984: bought by Knoedler's, New York dealers, and sold to a private collector, Los Angeles, on 1 December (#KMC1357);
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1987: bought by Hope Davis, New York art dealer;
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1988: bought by Paul Mellon (1907-1999) and Mrs Rachel Lambert Mellon (1910-2014);
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1991: given to the National Gallery of Art.
For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 950).
Exhibitions
Not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.