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

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M.0493
r.: Design for matting; v.: Design for panelling

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1873/1875
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.610
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 3/16 x 7 1/4" (284 x 184 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

r.: Design for matting; v.: Design for panelling

Provenance

  • 1917: sold by Messrs Dowdeswell, London, to Colnaghi, London art dealers, 28 March 1917;
  • 1921: sold by Colnaghi's to Scott and Fowles, New York, June 1921.
  • Date unknown: acquired by Hunt Henderson (1869-1939) , New Orleans;
  • 1939: bequeathed to Tulane University;
  • 1941: sold to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943) , April 1941;
  • 1943: bequeathed the Fogg Art Museum.

Exhibitions

No known exhibitions in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 15th February 2021 by Margaret