Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his ward and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1935: given by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 44) as ' "La Toison rouge" – Inachevé'.

No record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime has been found.

By the terms of Miss Birnie Philip's gift to the University of Glasgow, it is not lendable.