Provenance

• 1883/1884; given by Whistler to Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) ;
• ca 1905: sold to Edgar J. Hesslein (1864-1938) , art dealer, New York;
• Date unknown: said to have been sold to Paul Verdier (1874-1945), San Francisco, CA.
• 1958: said to have been bought from the City of Paris Art Gallery, San Francisco, by Ms Lathrop, Carson City, Nevada, and passed to her son, Paul Lathrop;
• 1983: bought by Robert Abbott, Cottage Grove, Oregon;
• 1985: sold to Byron Baker and partners, Eugene, Oregon.
• 2012: sold at auction, Christie's, New York, 25 September 2012 (lot 51).
• By 2018: Thomas Colville Fine Art, New Haven and New York.

The sequence of ownership, as provided by the recent (since 1983) owners and Christie's, is not entirely clear. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 921); this record has been updated.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.