Provenance

• By 1904: owned by Walter Gay (1856-1937) .

Gay met Whistler in 1894 but it is not known when he acquired this picture or what happened to it later.

Exhibitions

• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 145) as 'Scheveningen'.
• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 42) as 'Little Scheveningen (a grey note)'.