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

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Provenance

  • ca 1858: given to Whistler's half-sister Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) and/or her husband, Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) ;
  • 1890/1891: Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) and Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) of Detroit learnt that Haden's collection of Whistler etchings and drawings was available, and discussed dividing it between themselves;
  • ca 1895: Freer discussed the collection with E. G. Kennedy, of the New York firm of Wunderlich's, and learnt that MrsWunderlich would not agree 'to sell the Whistlers in a single lot';
  • 1898: Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) acted as go-between in negotiations between Freer and Wunderlich's to purchase of the Haden collection, which was accomplished in November 1898;
  • 1919: bequeathed Freer to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 222).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Due to the conditions of Freer's will, it cannot be lent to another venue.

Last updated: 2nd March 2021 by Margaret