Provenance: James Sloan, by 1875.[1] purchased probably before April 1883 by Nathan Guilford [1841-1907], New York and Yonkers;[2] by inheritance to his widow, Mary Wallace Guilford [b. 1841]; by inheritance 1936 to their daughter, Mary Wallace Stewart [née Guilford, 1872-c. 1955]; by inheritance to her sons, Guilford Stewart [1905-1968], Sharon, Massachusetts, and Ralph Aldace Stewart, Jr.; (Childs Gallery, Boston); purchased October 1957 as _Woman in an Interior_ by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Sloan lent the painting to the 1875 annual exhibition at the National Academy of Design in New York. The artist had probably lent the painting to the Century Association, New York, in 1874; see _New-York Evening Post_ (12 January 1874): 4.
[2] See letter dated 9 December 1957 from Charles Childs to Hermann Warner Williams, Jr., the Corcoran's director; in NGA curatorial files.