Provenance

• 1970: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 20 March 1970 (lot 70A, repr.), and bought by Williams, London dealer.
• Date unknown: bought by Ira Spanierman (n/a) , New York dealer;
• 1974: sold at auction, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 23 May 1974 (lot 41, repr.), bought in;
• Date unknown: bought by a private collector.
• 2021: artmarket.

The 1970 sale catalogue suggested that it had been owned by Walter Greaves (1846-1930), but there is no confirmation of this.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.