Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 42) as 'Violet and Blue'.

The Magazine of Art noted 'The girl red on purple and holding a blue fan makes a low but singing note', and the critic of the Saturday Review commented on 22 May 1886, 'a girl lying on purple stuffs and holding a blue fan, is one of the most decoratively effective of these; but one cannot help regretting the false proportion of the legs.'