Provenance

• 1894/1895: possibly given by the artist to Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942).

According to Sickert 'a little head' was one of three canvases (with Head of Mrs Beaumont [YMSM 430], Portrait of Mrs Walter Cave [YMSM 431]) that 'Whistler in a then fit of good humour said I could have', but Sickert later lost track of them and wrote asking Florence Pash Humphrey Holland (1860-1951) if she had them. 1 He asked Pash to sell it, or one of the other two canvases. 2

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.