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

 

M.1366
Peasant women standing under a tree

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1893
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: white paper
Size: 8 7/16 x 5" (215 x 128 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Peasant women standing under a tree

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1943: possibly bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers, on 28 June 1943, as 'Breton Fisherwomen';
  • 1943: bought by a private collector on 28 June but sold soon afterwards.
  • 1971: with Colnaghi's, and sold through Davis & Long, New York dealers, to Mr and Mrs Ralph Spencer, New York;
  • 1977: sold though Davis & Long to a private collector;
  • 1981: sold though Davis & Long to another private collector.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1366).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 17th February 2021 by Margaret