Provenance
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1917: probably bought from Messrs Dowdeswell by Colnaghi's, London art dealers, 3 April;
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1919: sold by Colnaghi's to Daniel H. Farr (d. 1976), Philadelphia dealer, 20 June.
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1930: probably bought from
Charles Sessler (1854-1935)
, Philadelphia dealer, by
Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971)
on 17 July 1930;
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1943: given to the National Gallery of Art, but housed at Alverthorpe until 1980.
Further detail is given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more]
(cat. no. 1127-28).
Exhibitions
The drawing was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.