Provenance

• Date unknown: acquired by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900);
• 1895: sold at auction, Wilde sale, Bullock, London, 24 April 1895 (lot 123) as 'A pencil sketch of a Lady', with r.: Maud Franklin; v.: Study of Maud Franklin [M.0693], and bought by David Croal Thomson (1855-1930).