Provenance

• 1974: with Stephen Somerville, London dealer in October;
• 1975: sold at auction from the collection of Mrs J. E. Morgan, Christie's, London, 18 July 1875 (lot 15, repr.) and bought by Agnew's, London dealers.
• 1982: sold at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 1982 (lot 13, repr.) and bought by Coe Kerr, New York dealers;
• Date unknown: private collection, Los Angeles.
• 1987-1988: with Coe Kerr, New York dealers;
• 1989: with Ira Spanierman (n/a), New York dealer in July.
• 1991: with Coe Kerr, New York dealers;
• 1991: sold at auction, Christie's, New York, 6 December 1991 (lot 133) and bought by Dr John Larkin (n/a) and Mrs Larkin;
• 2012: sold at auction, Christie's, New York, 28 November 2012 (lot 54) as 'Venetian Courtyard';
• 2013: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to the Colby College Museum of Art.

The early provenance is unknown and the later history of this work, as it was taken by various art dealers, is not entirely clear. Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no 792).

Exhibitions

No record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime has been located.