Provenance

• 1882: acquired from Whistler by Thomas Fothergill McNay (1836-1907) and his wife, Mary Isabella Cooke (Mrs T. F. McNay) (m. 1865) (1840-1906), Upper Grove, Norwood, London;
• After 1906: sold after Mrs McNay's death, possibly at auction, and bought by Victor G. Fischer, art dealer, Washington, DC.
• Date unknown: sold by Miss Emma Tate to J. W. Young (note on verso).
• Date unknown: bought by Tullah Innes Hanley (1911-1992), wife of Thomas Edward Hanley (1893-1969);
• 1965: gift from the Hanley Collection to the Iconography Collection, Humanities Research Centre.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 871).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.