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

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The Cemetery

Provenance

  • 1903: with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925) , London art dealer.
  • By 1904: owned by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914) ;
  • 1914: bought from Canfield by Knoedler's, New York art dealers, 12 March 1914;
  • 1914: sold to Stephen Carlton Clark (1882-1960) , New York, March 1914, but returned in February 1915;
  • 1915: bought from Knoedler's by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) ;
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Frick Collection, New York.

Exhibitions

  • 1881: Venice Pastels, Fine Art Society, London, 1881 (cat. no. 36) 'The Cemetery'.
  • 1903: Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 171) and 1904 (cat. no. 22) as 'The Cemetery, Venice'.
  • 1904: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 155).

For further details of History, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 738).

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret