Provenance

• ca 1878: acquired by Thomas Way (1837-1915), London;
• 1905: bought from his son, Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), June 1905;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1086).

Exhibitions

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 70) as 'Little Nude'.

By the terms of Freer's bequest, this work cannot be lent to another venue.