Provenance

• 1894: sold by Whistler to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, in November;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1395).

Exhibitions

• 1901: Probably 3rd Exhibition, Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Galleries of the Royal Institute, London, 1901 (cat. no. 33) as 'Violet Note'.
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 133) as 'A Violet Note'.

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