Provenance

• 1889: bought from Wunderlich's, New York, by William Loring Andrews (1837-1927) ;
• 1927: bequeathed to his wife, Jane Elizabeth Crane Andrews (1840-1930);
• 1931: sold at auction, AAA, New York, 25 March 1931 (lot 13, repr.), bought by Harold K. Hochschild (1892-1981) ;
• 1981: bequeathed to a private collection;
• 2005: sold at auction, Christie's, New York, 19 May 2005 (lot 62);
• 2006: bought by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933);
• 2006: given to Colby College Museum of Art, The Lunder Collection.

Exhibitions

• 1885: possibly The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 635) as 'Silver and Red: Dordrecht' (see Silver and Red: Dordrecht [M.0971]).
• 1889: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 16) as 'Note in Rose and Silver – Dortrecht'.

It was well received by the critics of The Sun, 10 March 1889, and Evening Sun, 16 March 1889.