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

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M.1312
La Sieste

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1893
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.213
Medium: lithographic crayon
Support: fine-grained lithographic transfer paper laid down on cream wove paper
Size: 6 5/16 x 9 5/8" (sheet 160 x 245 mm, image 140 x 236 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: stamp 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster)

La Sieste

Provenance

  • 1898/1901: probably acquired from Whistler's studio by Carmen Rossi (fl. 1880/1901) , Paris;
  • 1903: sold at auction, Drouot, Paris, 25 November 1903 (lot 7) as 'La Sieste'.
  • 1924: sold at auction, Drouot, Paris, 27 May 1924 (lot 137) as 'Sommeil';
  • 1924: bought from M. Guiot, a Paris dealer, by Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954) , Chicago, 25 June;
  • 1933: given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1313).

Exhibitions

As far as is known, it was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret