Provenance

• 1898/1901: probably acquired from Whistler's studio by Carmen Rossi (b. ca 1878, Paris;
• 1903: sold at auction, Drouot, Paris, 25 November 1903 (lot 7) as 'La Sieste'.
• 1924: sold at auction, Drouot, Paris, 27 May 1924 (lot 137) as 'Sommeil';
• 1924: bought from M. Guiot, a Paris dealer, by Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, 25 June;
• 1933: given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1313).

Exhibitions

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