Provenance

• 1886 or after: given by Whistler, according to a label, to Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942).
• By 1907: owned by Albert Eugene Gallatin (1882-1952);
• In or after 1952: passed by family descent to Catherine Gallatin Nichols;
• Date unknown: owned by a private collector;
• 1986: sold at auction, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 29 May 1886 (lot 143, repr.);
• 1986: bought by Hirschl and Adler, New York dealers:
• 1991: at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 1991 (lot 31) bought in;
• 1994: bought by The Fine Art Society, London.
• Date unknown: Garden Museum Collection, Matsue, Japan;
• Date unknown: Private Collection, Alameda, CA;
• 2012: sold at auction, Michaan's Auctions, Alameda, CA, 1 December 2012 (lot 2029).
• By 2015: Private Collection, New York.

Exhibitions

• 1886: possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. unknown).

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime, but it is likely that it was exhibited by Messrs Dowdeswell in 1886 or later in the 1880s.