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

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M.0869
La Dormeuse

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1882/1885
Collection: Thomas Colville Fine Art, New Haven, CT
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil
Support: cream laid paper, f.s.
Size: 3 5/16 x 4 3/16" (85 x 170 mm; 85 x 106 mm as folded)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: collector's marks of Alfred Beurdeley (Lugt 421) and S. H. N. Harrington (Lugt 1348)

La Dormeuse

Provenance

  • By 1919: owned by Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919), Paris;
  • 1920: sold at auction, Beurdeley collection, Petit, Paris, 2-4 June 1920 (lot 377) as 'La Dormeuse'.
  • Date unknown: owned by Henry Nazeby Harrington (1862-1937).
  • Date unknown: with Scott and Fowles, New York dealers.
  • 1993: sold at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 13 May 1993 (lot 443) and bought by Thomas Colville (n/a), New York art dealer.

Exhibitions

No record of exhibitions in Whistler's lifetime has been found.

Last updated: 19th February 2021 by Margaret