Provenance

• 1901: with the Goupil Gallery, London;
• 1902: bought from William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925) , art dealer, London, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit, August 1902;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1031).

Exhibitions

• 1901: probably Spring Exhibition, Goupil Gallery, London, 1901 (cat. no. 31) as 'The Seashore'.
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 147) as 'The Sea Shore'.
• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 104) as 'The Sea Shore'.

By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be exhibited in another venue.