Provenance

• By 1903: James Thomas Knowles (1831-1908); ;
• 1908: Knowles sale, Christie's, London, 27 May 1908 (lot 381) as 'A Girl Putting on a Sandal', bought by 'Paterson'.

The earlier provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

• 1903: possibly Collection of Pictures, Drawings, Prints and China, and Decorative Furniture, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1903 (cat. no. 32) as 'Pastel Sketch'.
• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 165) as 'A Female Figure.'