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

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M.0296
Fantin au lit

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1859
Collection: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Accession Number: RF 12246
Medium: chalk and pencil
Support: pale grey laid paper
Size: 9 5/8 x 6 3/16" (245 x 155 mm)
Signature: 'Whistler'
Inscription: "Fantin au lit - la poursuite de les études sous les difficultés 14' de froid / Dec. le 20. 1859."

Fantin au lit

Provenance

  • 1859: given to Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) ;
  • 1904: bequeathed to his wife, Victoria Fantin-Latour nee Dubourg (1840-1926);
  • Before 1925: given to the Musée du Luxembourg;
  • 1929: entered the Musée du Luxembourg.

Exhibitions

  • 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 122b).

Last updated: 17th February 2021 by Margaret