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

 

M.1180
Green and Silver: Beaulieu, Touraine

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1899.25a-b
Medium: pencil and watercolour
Support: white linen laid down on board, with the stamp of E. Mary & fils, 26 Rue Chaptal
Size: 5 3/8 x 8 7/16" (128 x 215 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: ' "Green & Silver"/ Beaulieu /Touraine,' and, in an unknown hand, 'No 4G'

Green and Silver: Beaulieu, Touraine

Provenance

  • 1889: after being exhibited, returned by Wunderlich's, New York dealers, to Whistler.
  • 1899: bought from Goupil, London art dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) ,
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1180).

Exhibitions

  • 1889: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 4) as 'Green and Silver – Loches'.
  • 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 90) as 'Green and Silver – Beaulieu'.

It was priced at 35 guineas in 1889, but remained unsold, and was returned after the exhibition by Wunderlich's on the SS Servia. 1

Notes:

1: G. Dieterlen, H. Wunderlich & Co., Wunderlich to Whistler, 1 November 1889, GUW #07187.

Last updated: 1st April 2021 by Margaret