Provenance

• 1894/1898: probably given by Whistler to Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London, who owned it by 1908;
• By 1912: 'cameos' bought from Way 'for a considerable sum' by George Charles Williamson (1858-1942), Burgh House, Hampstead, London;
• 1915: offered to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), who refused it.

Further details are in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1421).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.