Provenance

• 1884: bought from Whistler by Jonathan Hogg (1847-1930), Dublin;
• 1930: bequeathed to the National Gallery of Ireland.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 917).

Exhibitions

• 1884: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 47) 'Twilight; gold and grey' or (cat. no. 55) 'Sunrise; gold and grey'.
• 1884: Annual Exhibition of Sketches, Pictures & Photography: A Loan Collection of Pictures by Mr Whistler ..., Dublin Sketching Club, Dublin, 1884 (cat. no. 231) as 'Sunrise – gold and grey'.
• 1888: Exhibition of Paintings, British Dental Association, Dublin, 1888 (cat. no. 5) as 'Sunrise'.
• 1904: Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also pictures lent by the executors of the late James Staats Forbes and others, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904 (cat. no. 255) as 'Evening'.