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: bought by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd, London art dealers, 11 May 1956;
• 1957: bought on 2 August by Alister Mathews (1907-1985), art dealer, Bournemouth;
• 1958: sold in February to Hyman Swetzoff (d. 1968), Swetzoff Gallery, Boston.

The Swetzoff Gallery records are in the Archives of American Art.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1671).

Exhibitions

Not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.