Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death, and bequeathed to his ward and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
• 1943: bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers, and sold to Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram (1877-1963), on 2 June 1943.
• 1974: bought from L. Hermann by Agnew's London art dealers, 27 February, and sold to a private collector.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1606).

Exhibitions

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