Provenance

• 1883/1888: acquired by Maud Franklin (1857-ca 1941) , who married, first, John Albro Little (d. 1904), and secondly Richard Harold Scott Abbott (1875-1948);
• 1936/1941: either given to her daughter Ione Franklin Tyler (1877-1951) (nee Forbes) or bequeathed to her son Richard Abbott (d. 1948);
• 1948: inherited by Ione Tyler's son Richard Tyler (d. 1980), San Francisco;
• 1980: bequeathed to his wife, Adelle K. Tyler (nee Barnecutt) (d. 1983);
• 1983: after her death, passed by family descent to a private collection;
• 1986: sold though Knoedler-Modarco S.A., New York, to Daniel J. Terra (1911-1996) ;
• 1996: Daniel J. Terra Collection, Chicago, Illinois;
• 1999: Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection, Chicago, Illinois, 1999;
• 2004: The Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago closed; The Terra Foundation for American Art placed part of the collection, including the works on paper, on long-term loan to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.