Provenance

• 1903: bought from Whistler on 8 May by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914) ;
• 1914: bought on 12 March by Knoedler's, New York dealers, and sold in April to William Welles Bosworth (1869-1966) , New York;
• 1924: bought back in August 1924;
• 1927: sold by Knoedler's to a private collector;
• 1939: bought back in May 1939;
• 1948: sold to the Meredith Galleries, New York.
• Date unknown: acquired for the E. R. and J. Pennell Collection, Library of Congress.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1679).

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. 161) as 'The Forge'.