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

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M.1187
Women and children outside a Brittany shop

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888
Collection: Thomas Colville Fine Art
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: linen laid down on board
Size: 5 x 8 1/2" (127 x 216 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Women, Children at a Shop Door' on v. of mount, in unknown hand (probably by Harold Wright)

Women and children outside a Brittany shop

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1187) as 'Women and children outside a Brittany shop'.

Books on Whistler

  • Blagoy Kiroff with Rakuten Kobo, James Whistler: 180 Master Drawings, Kindle, 2015.
  • Maria Peitcheva, Whistler: Drawings, Kindle, 2016.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • ADAA Art Show, The Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2015.

SALE:

  • Christie's, New York, 6 December 1985 (lot 182, repr.)
  • Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 2012 (lot 48) .

Websites

  • 'The ADAA Art Show Opens At The Park Avenue Armory', March 2015, website.
  • 'American and European Figurative Paintings', Thomas Colville Fine Art, 2018, website.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret