Signed, at left: [butterfly in circle]

Signed, on the verso: frame decorated by Whistler [according to the 1905 memorial exhibition catalogue]

Alexander Ionides. Alecco Ionides. 1895, George McCulloch (London, England)

1907, his widow, Mrs. Coutts Michie. until 1911, William O'Leary Fine Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA). 1911-1934, Henry Glover Stevens (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1934-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter, ca. 1872, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Henry Glover Stevens in memory of Ellen P. Stevens and Mary M. Stevens, 34.27.