Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

• 1898: A Collection of Selected Works by Painters of the English, French & Dutch Schools, Goupil Gallery, London, 1898 (cat. no. 23) as 'Resting'.

Several critics quoted in the Goupil catalogue commented that it was small, but none help to identify it. Table Talk thought 'Mr. Whistler has overstepped the limits: it is nothing but a shapeless, meaningless mass of colour-blotches.' 1

The Little White Sofa, Fogg Art Museum

It is possible that this could apply to a somewhat confusing little oil, The Little White Sofa [YMSM 258], reproduced above.