Provenance

• 1890: probably sent by Whistler to William Heinemann (1863-1920), London publisher.
• 1904: bought from Obach, London art dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1260).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

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