Provenance

• 1880 or later: acquired by Thomas Way (1837-1915) ;
• By 1905: given to Way's son Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913);
• 1916: after his death, sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 25 July 1916 (lot 79) as 'The Cloudy Sky, Venice', and bought by Agnew, London dealers;
• 1916: sold to C. W. Kraushaar, New York dealer, on 29 July.
• 1947: bought from Macbeth, New York dealers, by John Lionberger Davis (1878-1973), St Louis, in 1947;
• 1957: given by J. Lionberger Davis to the St Louis Art Museum.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 820).

Exhibitions

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