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

 

M.1188
Grey and Green: A Shop in Brittany

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46132
Medium: watercolour
Support: white cotton laid down on card with stamp 'E. MARY & FILS/ 26 RUE CHAPTAL, PARIS'
Size: 5 11/16 x 9 9/16" (145 x 244 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: v.: '(103)/ 42'

Grey and Green: A Shop in Brittany

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1935: given to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

  • 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 96) as 'Grey and Green. A Shop in Brittany'.

By the terms of Miss Birnie Philip's Gift, this work cannot be shown in any other venue.

Last updated: 5th June 2021 by Margaret