Provenance

• Date unknown: acquired by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904) ;
• 1904-1905: Executors of the Estate of J. S. Forbes;
• 1905: bought from or through William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919)
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Details of provenance are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 378).

Exhibitions

• 1903: 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. 192).
• 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, Goupil Gallery, London, 1904 (cat. no. 4 or 13).
• 1905: possibly 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. 396).