Provenance

• 1908: Obach & Co., London art dealers, sent eleven drawings to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , from which he bought four including this;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

The earlier provenance is not known. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 522).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

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