Provenance

• 1886/1905: acquired by George Roland Halkett (1855-1918), journalist, at the Pall Mall Gazette;
• By 1915: owned by his wife, Lucy Marion Halkett née Lees (1867-1966).
• 1939: bought from W. Weeler, St James's, London, by Knoedler, London dealers, July 1939;
• 1939: sold to Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), Paris, and shipped to New York, November 1939;
• 1955: given to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (now the Clark Art Institute).

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. 177) as 'Girl with Parasol / Study for the painting.'