Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler’s studio at his death in 1903 and bequeathed to his ward and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
• 1935: given by Miss R. Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 81) as ‘La blanchisseuse; Dieppe’.

By the terms of Miss Birnie Philip's gift to the University of Glasgow, the picture can not be lent.