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

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Portrait of Madame H. Aubrée

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1856/1857
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: 'Whistler' ('signés de votre nom')
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown
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Portrait of Madame H. Aubrée

Provenance

  • 1855/1856: painted for the Aubrée family, in France;
  • 1879: according to Louis Aubrée (fl. 1870-1899), 'Mon frère à herité il y a une vingtaine d'années - (1879) de peintures portraits ... Ces objets étaient la proprieté de Me. H. Aubrée sa soeur.' 1
  • 1899: still owned by the Aubrée family.

H. Aubrée (d. ca 1879) has not been identified.

Exhibitions

It was never exhibited.

Notes:

1: L. Aubrée to Whistler, 30 December 1899, GUW #00216. Translation: My brother inherited twenty years ago some portraits ... These were the property of Me. H. Aubrée his sister.'

Last updated: 20th November 2019 by Margaret