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

 

M.1042
Off the Brittany Coast

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: probably white paper
Size: 4 3/4 x 8 1/8" (120 x 206 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Off the Brittany Coast

Provenance

  • By 1901: owned by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935) ;
  • 1935: after his death, passed to Katherine Geddes Benedict (1879-1961) ;
  • 1962: after her death, sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1962 (lot 8) as 'Off the Brittany Coast', bought by Weitzner for Agnew's, London art dealers;
  • 1964: bought by a private collector.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1042).

Exhibitions

  • 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 109) as 'Off the Brittany Coast'.

Last updated: 7th June 2021 by Margaret