Provenance

• By 1903: owned by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904) ;
• 1903-1904: with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer;
• 1905: with the Executors of the estate of J. S. Forbes;
• 1905: bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) ;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

• 1903: possibly 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. 177 or 190) and 1904 (cat. no. 2 or 8) as 'Lady with Fan'.
• 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. 390) as 'Female Figure with Fan'.

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