Provenance

• 1852/1853: possibly given by Whistler to his half-brother George William Whistler (1822-1869) and passed by family descent to his son George Delano Whistler (1880-1937) ;
• 1927: sold through O. Grassmann. Lausanne, at auction, Christie's, London, 29 July 1927 (lot 255) as 'West Point Military Academy', bought by 'R. Parsons'.

Subsequent history unknown. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 102).