Provenance

• 1905: owned by James Thomas Knowles (1831-1908) ;
• 1908: possibly sold at auction, Knowles sale, Christie's, London, 27 May 1908 (lot 380) with 'Nude Female Studies', bought by Parsons, London dealer.
• 1927: bequeathed by Charles Deering (1852-1927) to the Art Institute of Chicago.

The early provenance is unknown. See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 687).

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. 170) as 'A Nude Figure'.