Provenance

• 1880: given by Whistler on 11 July to the artist George Edward Hopkins (1855-1924) .
• By 1905: owned by A. Buck;
• 1905: owned by G. H. Buck, Brooklyn, posssibly until 1917.
• Date unknown: with Kennedy, New York art dealers.
• Date unknown: acquired by Hunt Henderson (1869-1939) , New Orleans;
• 1939: bequeathed to Tulane University;
• 1941: bought in April by Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943);
• 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 780).

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. 120) as 'Maude Reading, in a Hammock'.