c. 1880
18.9 x 14.5 cm (7 7/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
John Singer Sargent; his sale, Christie's London, July 24-25, 1925, part of no. 269 (£58 16s.); purchased at that sale by Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, January 1926 ($550); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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