Provenance

• 1878/1879: acquired by Pickford Robert Waller (1849-1930) ;
• 1930: bequeathed to his daughter Sybil Christina Waller (1882-1973) ;
• 1968: sold at Christie's, London, 8 November 1968 (lot 162) and bought by Anthony D'Offay, London dealer, £1050.0.0;
• 1969: bought by Ira Spanierman (n/a) , New York;
• 1974: sold at auction, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 23 May 1974 (lot 41D, bought in);
• By 1984: bought by Gilbert Waters (n/a) , Sarasota;
• 1991: sold through Hope Davis, New York art dealer, to Richard M. Thune, Greenwich, CT.

Exhibitions

• 1874: possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 23) as 'Design for Picture, "Variations in Yellow and Brown".'
• 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. 175) as 'Harmony in Gold and Brown'.