Provenance

• 1896: sold by the artist to David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), the Goupil Gallery, London.

Whistler told Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932) that Brown and Gold: The Curé's Little Class [YMSM 455] and 'the tiny sea bit you brought back are sold "en bloc" this afternoon.' 1

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited, as far as is known, in Whistler's lifetime.