Provenance

• 1855: given by Whistler to a fellow-draughtsman at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey in Washington DC, John Ross Key (1837-1920) ;
• 1896: possibly sold by Key to Frederick Keppel (1845-1912), New York dealer;
• 1906: Keppel and Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), New York dealer, showed several drawings, possibly including this, to Joseph Pennell (1860-1926).
• 1927: bequeathed by Charles Deering (1852-1927) to the Art Institute of Chicago.

For further details, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 199).

Exhibitions

• 1896: Frederick Keppel, Chicago, 1896 (no cat. no.).

It was reproduced in the Chicago Times Herald, 8 March 1896, p. 30.