Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903 and bequeathed to his ward and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
• 1935: given by Miss R. Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 80) as 'La petite maison rouge'.

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime. It was first shown in the Whistler memorial exhibition in Paris in 1905.

By the terms of Miss Birnie Philip's gift to the University of Glasgow, it is not lendable.