Provenance

• 1886: bought by Edward William Hooper (1839-1901) , Boston, 2 July 1886;
• 1901: passed by family descent to his daughter Mary ('Molly'), Mrs Roger S. Warner (1879-1972);
• 1972: passed by family descent to her son Sturgis Warner (1914-1995);
• 1996: at Sloan's auction house, Washington DC, 18-20 October 1996.
• 2013: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to Colby College Museum of Art.

See details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1033).

Exhibitions

• 1886: probably 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 54) as 'Note in opal – The Sands, Dieppe'.
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 88) as 'Marine'.