Titles

One title has been suggested:

• 'Shop Front' (1980, YMSM). 1

Description

William Merritt Chase described the subject as 'a green grocer's shop, with its orderly and colorful array of fruits and vegetables' and a 'crate of oranges ... against that background of green.' 2

An Orange Note: Sweet Shop, Freer Gallery of Art

Terrey's Fruit Shop, Chelsea, The Hunterian

A pile of oranges dominates the shop window in An Orange Note: Sweet Shop [YMSM 264] but it dates from 1883 or at latest 1884. No other oil appears to match the description. Whistler painted watercolours of similar subjects including Terrey's Fruit Shop, Chelsea [M.1002]. The painting described by Chase – whether oil or watercolour – has not been identified.

Site

Chelsea, London, UK.