Provenance

• By 1905: with Ernest Brown & Phillips, London art dealers.
• Before 1922: bought by Otto Gerstenberg (1848-1935);
• 1922: sold in Gerstenberg sale (cat. no. 91, repr.) as 'Two sketches. Lithographie. W.160. Kleine Knickfalte in der Blattmitte'.
• Date unknown, after 1946: with Ketterer Kunst, Munich print dealer.
• Date unknown: with Michelle and Prout‚ Paris dealers.
• By 1967: bought by R. E. Lewis (fl. 1952), print dealer, San Francisco;
• After 1967: bought by Ira Gale, art dealer.
• By 1998: owned by Laurence N. Stranger, Los Angeles.
• 2004: given to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Crown Family in honour of James N. Wood.

Exhibitions

• 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. 148) as a lithograph, 'Two sketches', 10 x 7".