Provenance

• 1886: bought on 2 July by Edward William Hooper (1839-1901) ;
• 1901: bequeathed to his daughter Mabel, Mrs Bancel Lafarge (1875-1944), Mount Carmel, CT;
• 1944: bequeathed to her son, the architect, L. Bancel Lafarge (1900-1989), Mount Carmel, CT;
• 1962: given to his wife, Margaret Lafarge née Hockaday (1907-1992), and their children, Benjamin, Celestine and Timothy;
• 1984: bought by Knoedler's, New York dealers, in 17 November (#KMC1355);
• 1984: sold to a private collector.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1043).

Exhibitions

• 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 58) as "Arrangement in blue and silver – The Great Sea'.
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 143) as 'Marine'.

The Morning Post, 24 May 1884, described it as 'a rough vigorous study of the sea-shore'.