Provenance

• Dates unknown: said to have been with Doll and Richards, Boston dealers, and Anna Sears Amory, Boston, MA.
• Date unknown: with Arthur H. Hahlo & Co., New York dealer.
• 1917: owned by the Revd George Francis Weld (1866-1933), and his wife Dorothy Appleton Weld (1878-1965), Montecito, Santa Barbara, California.
• 1961: sold from a Washington, DC, collection, at Parke-Bernet, New York, 25 January 1961 (lot 5) as 'Venice at Sunset'.
• By 1964: owned by Joan Whitney Payson (1903-1975) and Charles Shipman Payson (1898-1985);
• 1985: passed to the Payson estate;
• 1991: promised gift of their son, John Whitney Payson (1923-2016) to Portland Art Museum.

The early provenance is unknown. Although it was said (Parke-Bernet, 1961) to have been owned by Gardner Brewer, Boston, he died in 1874.

Exhibitions

No exhibition has been identified although the inscription implies that it was shown in Whistler's lifetime.