Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death, and bequeathed to his ward and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
• 1955: bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers.
• Date unknown: owned by Louis Crispin Warmington (d. 1961).
• Date unknown: acquired by Harold Wright (1885-1961) , art dealer at Colnaghi's, London;
• 1962: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1962 (lot 12), and bought by Agnew's, London dealaers;
• 1963: bought by Kenneth A. Lohf (1925-2002), New York.
• 2013: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to Colby College Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.