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

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M.1193
A door opening onto steps down to a garden

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: off-white blotting paper
Size: 2 5/8 -2 3/4 x 4 9/16-4 11/16" (67-70 x 116-120 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Chelsea' seen in reverse

A door opening onto steps down to a garden

Provenance

  • ca 1888: given by Whistler to Théodore Roussel (1847-1926) ;
  • 1926: passed by family descent to his second wife's niece, Agnes Ethel Mackay (1889-1980);
  • 1980: bought by the Fine Art Society, Glasgow, and sold to a private collector.

The provenance given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1193) has been corrected.

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 4th March 2021 by Margaret