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

 

M.1600
Five paintings at the Galerie Georges Petit

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler P402
Medium: pencil
Support: cream wove paper, printed heading of ‘HOTEL, CHATHAM’, coat of arms and motto (‘BENIGNO NUMINE’), watermark of a crown over ‘VICTORIA / NOTE PAPER’
Size: 272 x 216 mm (10 11/16 x 8 1/2")
Signature: letter signed ‘the General’

Five paintings at the Galerie Georges Petit

Five paintings at the Galerie Georges Petit was drawn in a letter from Whistler ('the General') to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) on 5 December 1899, when, according to the artist, 'Paris has gone simply wild about the "Wistleer" group at the exhibition of which this is the opening night! ... an excited crowd in front of the Whistler pictures! so great that it is impossible to see them! ... the whole group or "panel" looks superb!!' 1

Five paintings at the Galerie Georges Petit, Glasgow University Library
Five paintings at the Galerie Georges Petit, Glasgow University Library

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1600).

Notes:

1: Whistler to R. Birnie Philip, [5 December 1899], #04762.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret