Provenance

• 1908: with Obach, London art dealers, and offered to, but rejected, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919);
• 1911: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 21 July 1911 (lot 79) as 'The Dressmaker's Shop' and bought by 'Wigram';
• 1912: with Colnaghi's, London art dealers.
• 1917: sold by Wallis, London art dealers, at auction, Christie's, London, 2 March 1917 (lot 43) and bought by Colnaghi and Obach, London art dealers, for £94.10.0;
• 1919: sold to Matthews and Brooke, 14 November 1919.
• 1939: possibly with Kennedy, New York art dealers.
• 1970: with Kennedy, New York.
• 1976: with Sommerville and Simpson, and sold to Paul Mellon (1907-1999) ;
• 1993: given to the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

The early provenance is unknown. 1

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.