Provenance

• Date unknown: with Boussod, Valadon & Cie, art dealers, London and Paris (label).
• 1890/1903: said to have been bought from Whistler by 'Behg', Paris;
• By 1904: bought from 'Behg' by John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911) ;
• 1911: passed by family descent to a private collector;
• 1982: sold at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 1982 (lot 14, repr.) and bought by a private collector;
• By 2015: Thomas Colville Fine Art, New York, NY, and Guilford, CT.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1282).

Exhibitions

• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 115) as 'Mother and child'.