Provenance

• 1903: in the artist's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1956: sold on 11 May by Miss Birnie Philip to P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd, London art dealers;
• 1957: bought on 5 November by Alister Mathews (1907-1985), art dealer, Bournemouth, who sold it to an American collector.
• Date unknown: bought by Robert Owen Lehman (1891-1969);
• 1969: bequeathed to the Robert Lehman Foundation Inc.;
• 1970: the Lehman Collection was transferred to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1658).

Exhibitions

None in Whistler's lifetime.