Couple seated at a table dates from between August and October 1858.
Couple seated at a table, Freer Gallery of Art
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 247).
Couple seated at a table, Freer Gallery of Art
Couple seated at a table, Freer Gallery of Art
The man could be Whistler's companion, Ernest Delannoy (d. 1869/1872) with an unidentified woman in Baden-Baden, Germany.
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.
See further details in r.: Les Côtes à Dieppe; v.: Cliffs and building m0222.
It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Due to the terms of Freer's will, it cannot be shown in another venue.