Provenance

• Before 1904: owned by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904) ;
• 1904-1905: Executors of James Staats Forbes;
• 1905: bought through William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

• 1903-1904: Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 193) and 1904 (cat. no. 5).
• 1904: Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also pictures lent by the executors of the late James Staats Forbes and others, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904 (cat. no. 258).
• 1905: Pictures given to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, National Museum, Dublin, 1905 (cat. no. 42a).

By the terms of C. L. Freer's will, this drawing can not be lent to other venues.