Provenance

• Date unknown: possibly with Walter Dowdeswell (1858-1929), London;
• 1937: probably sold by Maggs Brothers, London, 1937, no. 642 (lot 123);
• Date unknown: bought from Maggs by Castano, Boston dealers;
• Date unknown: bought from Castano by Steven Juvelis (b. 1921) , Lynn, Massachusetts;
• 1962: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 22 June 1962 (lot 19) as 'A Study of a Tomb with a Recumbent Effigy', and bought by 'Manning', London dealer;
• 1963: sold at the sale of the estate of the late Paul L. Joachim etc., Parke-Bernet, New York, 17 October 1963 (lot 9) as 'A Knight's Tomb, Baden Baden', with another drawing.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.