Provenance

• By 1904: owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938).
• Date unknown: with William Macbeth, New York art dealer.
• Date unknown: owned by Bertha Honoré Palmer (1849-1918), wife of Potter Palmer (1826-1902), Chicago;
• 1918-2003: by descent to Potter Palmer, Jr (1875-1943) and his wife Pauline Blake Kohlstaat (1882-1956), their son Potter Palmer III (1909-1946) and his wife Rose Movius Palmer (1909-2003);
• 2003-2006: with the Palmer estate;
• 2006: sold at auction, Christie's, New York, 30 November 2006 (lot 65).
• 2013: given by Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) and Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) to Colby College Museum of Art.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 355): this entry has been revised and updated.

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. 183) as 'Draped Figure, Standing'.