Provenance
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Date unknown: at some time in the collections of
Lennox Boyd (dates unknown)
, and 'Pierce' (unidentified).
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1971: sold by Colnaghi, London art dealers, to The Fine Art Society, London art dealers;
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1974: bought from them by Davis & Long, New York art dealers;
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1978: sold by
Meredith J. Long (n/a), art dealer in Houston, Texas, through Davis & Long to
Franklin Beekman Biggs (1916-2004)
, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida;
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2004: F. B. Briggs, Middletown, Delaware, died in 2004, and his wife,
Alice Baldwin Biggs (d. 2006)
, two years later.
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2018: whereabouts unknown.
The early history of this painting is not known.
Exhibitions
As far as is known, it was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.