Provenance

• 1892: sold by Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, to Bertha Honoré Palmer (1849-1918);
• 1918: passed by family descent to her sons Honoré Palmer (1874-1964)‚ and Potter Palmer, Jr (1875-1943).
• 2013: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to Colby College Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 147) as 'Mother and Child'.