Provenance

• 1905: sold by Knoedler's, London and New York art dealers, to Blanche Marchesi (1863-1940) .
• Date unknown: possibly owned by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914) .
• 1920: sold by David Croal Thomson (1855-1930) , London art dealer, to Colnaghi's, London art dealers, 9 July;
• 1920: transferred to Knoedler's and sent to New York, 23 October;
• 1921: sold to Marshall Field III (1893-1956), Chicago, in May 1921;
• 1930/1938: passed to his ex-wife, Evelyn M. Field, later Mrs Diego Suarez (1888–1979) ;
• 1980: sold at auction, Christie's, New York, 22 May 1980 (lot 103) and bought by a private collector;
• 1984: sold by Knoedler-Modarco S.A., New York, to Daniel J. Terra (1911-1996) ;
• 1999: passed to the Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection, Chicago;
• 2004: following the closure of the Terra Museum of American Art, works on paper were transferred on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 79) as 'The Blue Girl.'