Provenance

• Date unknown: probably with James Connell & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland.
• By 1905: Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924) , Glasgow, Scotland;
• 1924: sold by Mrs MacGeorge through T. & R. Annan & Sons, Ltd., Glasgow, to P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London;
• 1924: sold by Colnaghi's, in partnership with Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, to a private collection.
• [1959: with M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York;
• By 1960: Mr and Mrs Charles C. Henderson, New Orleans, Louisiana;
• 1975: sold at Christie's, London, 28 February 1975 (lot 16) as 'The Salute, Venice', and bought by Paul F. Walter (1935-2017) ;
• 2017: Christie's, New York, 26-27 September 2017 (lot 344) as 'Santa Maria della Salute, Venice'.

Exhibitions

• 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. 45) as 'The Salute, Venice, from the Riva Schiavoni', oil [sic].

No exhibition in Whistler's lifetime has been identified.