Provenance

• 1898/1901: lent by Hannah 'Anna' Sears Amory (1866-1901) of 7 Fairfield Street, Boston, to Boston Museum of Fine Arts (label);
• Date unknown, after 1901: lent by her husband (m. 1898) Revd George Francis Weld Sr (1866-1933), Hingham, MA, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (626.09, label).
• Date unknown: with Doll & Richards, 2 Park Street, Boston dealers (label).
• Date unknown: with Arthur H. Hahlo, 569 Fifth Avenue, New York dealers (label).
• 1931: bequeathed by James Parmelee (1855-1931) to the Corcoran Gallery of Art;
• 1941: accessioned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art;
• 2015: transferred from the Corcoran Gallery of Art to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

It is likely that the pastel was acquired in the 1890s but no proof of this has been located. Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 805). The record has been revised and updated.

Exhibitions

No record has been located of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.