Provenance

• By 1905: owned by Alexander Arnold Hannay (1858-1927), London.
• 1919: sold by Knoedler's, London art dealers, to David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), Barbizon House, London;
• 1919: sold to Henrietta Richardson Hind (Mrs C. Lewis Hind) (1862-1938), London.
• 1920: sold at auction, Mrs John F. Carroll Collection and others sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 5-6 February 1920 (lot 116) as 'The Sea, Pourville, II'.
• 1963: given by Governor W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986) and his wife Marie Norton Harriman (Mrs W. A. Harriman) (1903-1970) to the Albany Institute of History and Art, NY, in December 1963;
• 1974: sold by the Albany Institute to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in March 1974.

A. A. Hannay lent this painting (or possibly The Sea, Pourville, No. 1 [YMSM 516]) to exhibitions in 1905 and 1912. He probably sold it to Knoedler's. In Knoedler's records it had the a/c numbers 6404, 14699 and 15826. There are several gaps in the provenance.

Exhibitions

• 1905: possibly Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 64) as 'The Sea, Pourville'.

The size given for the painting exhibited in London in 1905 was 4 x 6 ½ inches, which is not correct for either The Sea, Pourville, No. 1 [YMSM 516] or The Sea, Pourville, No. 2 [YMSM 519] but is nearer to the latter.