Provenance

• 1894-1895: owned by Alexander Reid (1854-1928), Glasgow art dealer.

Exhibitions

• 1894: possibly 64th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1894 (cat. no. 323) as 'Brittany'.
• 1895: A Collection of Paintings representing The Glasgow School, Artists of Denmark and Some Others, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1895 (cat. no. 165) as 'Brittany'.

There is some doubt about the identity of the work exhibited in 1894. See Street in Brittany [YMSM 415].

However, on 30 November 1895, The Critic commented that Whistler had 'sent three pastels, delicate and exquisite in colour – suggestions, dreams, flashes of light from the wings of the butterfly as it flits by.'