Provenance

• By 1904: Henry Osbourne Havemeyer (1847-1907) ;
• 1907: bequeathed to Louisine Waldron Havemeyer (1855-1929) ;
• 1929: bequeathed to her daughter, Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen, and passed by descent to her son, The Honorable Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, and grandson, Peter Frelinghuysen;
• 2012: sold at auction, Doyle's, New York, 9 May 2012 (lot 341), achieving a world auction record price for a Whistler work on paper, $650,000;
• 2012: bought by the National Gallery of Art, from the Paul Mellon Fund and Patrons' Permanent Fund.

The early provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

• 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 15) as 'The palace; white and pink'.
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 123) as 'The Palace – Pink and White'.