Provenance

• Before 1904: owned by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904) ;
• 1904-1905: Executors of James Staats Forbes;
• 1905: bought through William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

• 1903-1904: possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903, (cat. no. 189) and 1904 (cat. no. 1).
• 1905: probably Pictures given to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, National Museum, Dublin, 1905b(cat. no. 38) as 'Female Figure Seated'.