Provenance

• 1902: bought on 30 May from Obach, London dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , but left with Whistler for retouching;
• 1903: possibly sent to Freer on 30 July, with other works retouched by Whistler, by William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London dealer;
• 1919: bequeathed by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) to the Freer Gallery of Art.

The early provenance is unclear. It may have also belonged to Alexander Constantine Ionides (1810-1890) and family, and it may have been a pastel of a nude owned by Miss Samuda at 32 Albion Street in London, and seen by C. L. Freer in 1902. 1

Details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 418).