Provenance

• Date unknown: acquired by Whistler's attorney, James Anderson Rose (1819-1890), London;
• 1891: sold with Sleeping woman [M.0310], at auction, Christie's, London, 5 May 1891 (lot 112) as 'The Sleeper; and the companion', and bought by Dowdeswell, London dealers.
• By 1905: owned by Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) , Glasgow;
• 1924: sold by Mrs MacGeorge through T. & R. Annan & Sons, Ltd, Glasgow, to P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd, London, 12 July 1924,
• 1925: sold by Colnaghi's on 26 January 1925;
• 1926/1927: owned at some time by Martin Birnbaum (1878-1970) , according to Parke Bernet (1942);
• 1927: bought from him by Mrs Mrs Esther Slater Kerrigan (1892-1951) , New York;
• 1942: sold at auction, E. S. Kerrigan sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 8-10 January 1942 (lot 32) as 'Woman Reclining';
• 1942: bought from Scott and Fowles, New York dealers, by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956) ;
• 1955: given to the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute.

Exhibitions

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 184) as 'A Sleeping Figure'.