Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1943: sold to Colnaghi's, London art dealers, 27 March 1943;
• 1943: sold to Villiers David (1906-1985), London, 3 May 1943;
• 1985: sold at auction, Christie's, New York, 6 December 1985 (lot 185A) as 'A Brittany Shop with Shuttered Windows', and bought by Knoedler, New York dealers;
• 1986: bought by Daniel J. Terra (1911-1996), for the Daniel J. Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago;
• 1992: Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection, Chicago.
• Transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1365).

Exhibitions

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