Provenance

• 1885: acquired from the artist by Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) (according to Sickert);
• 1907: sold by Sickert to Obach, London art dealers;
• 1907: bought from Obach's by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit, on 22 October;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1026).

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.

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