Provenance

• 1884/1886: bought by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) , London;
• 1902: bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit, in June 1902;
• 1919: bequeathedto the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 590).

Exhibitions

• 1884/1886: possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 or 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. unknown).

It may well have been exhibited in Dowdeswell's in 1884 or 1886, but if so it has not been identified.

By the terms of Freer's will, it cannot be lent to another venue.