Composition

This may be a study for a more elaborate figure composition, as seen in another sketch, r.: Gambling salon at Baden-Baden; v.: Girl knitting, street scene, cloaked figure [M.0245].

Conservation History

The sheet was probably taken from a sketchbook. Over fifty drawings, many in sketchbooks, most of which dated from 1857-1858, were apparently given to Whistler's half-sister Deborah and/or her husband, Francis Seymour Haden, and were later removed from the sketchbooks.