Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.1691
r.: The Boatmen, Ajaccio; v.: mother and child

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: Whereabouts unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and ink
Support: paper
Size: 95 x 152 mm (3 3/4 x 6")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: unknown
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r.: The Boatmen, Ajaccio; v.: mother and child

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
  • 1955: sold on 25 June to Colnaghi's, London art dealers, who sold it on 25 June to a private collector.
  • 2000: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 6 December 2000 (lot 35) as 'The Boatmen, Ajaccio'.
  • 2004: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 17 November 2004 (lot 17) as 'The Boatmen, Ajaccio'.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1688).

Last updated: 5th March 2021 by Margaret