James McNeill Whistler

Cyril Flower, London (acquired circa 1884-85)

Agnew's Gallery, London (acquired from the above in 1899)

Sir Edmund Davis, Kent (acquired from the above in 1899)

Constance Halford Rea, London (acquired as a gift from the above by 1904)

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired in 1914)

Mrs. Perle Reis Mesta, Washington D.C.

Private Collection (acquired from the above by 1965)

Arpad Antiques, Washington, D.C.

Private Collection (acquired from the above by September 1972)

Private Collection (until 2006)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Andrew McLaren Young, Margaret MacDonald and Robin Spencer, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven, 1980, no. 269, pl. 183, p. 144, illustrated

London, Messrs. Dowdeswell, 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', 1884, no. 24, n.p.

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 78th Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, 1904, no. 307, p. 25

London, New Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late James McNeil Whistler, First President of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, 1905, no. 77, pp. 105-06 (titled Note in Red and Violet)

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Oils, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by J. McN. Whistler, 1914, no. 8