Provenance

• 1880/1892: possibly acquired by Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (b. ca 1829-d.1891) ;
• 1892: possibly sold, Hutchinson collection, Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 247) as 'The Riva', and bought by Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) , art dealer.
• 1911: possibly sold at auction, Christie's, London, 7 February 1911 (lot 174) as 'The Riva No. 2' and bought by Parsons, London art dealer.
• 1919: possibly sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 3 November 1919 (lot 78A), and bought by Max Williams (d. 1928) ;
• 1920: sold at auction, AAA, New York, 19 February 1920 (lot 153);
• 1921: said to have been owned by Mitchell Kennerly (1878-1950), New York;
• 1921/1925: possibly with V. G. Fischer, art dealer, Washington, DC.
• 1949: given by Henry Sayles Francis (1902-1994) and his wife Frances Meriam Francis (née Burrage) (d. 1989) to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The provenance before 1920 is uncertain. See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 734).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.