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

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M.1515
r.: House front with a woman at the window; v.: Rosalind Birnie Philip

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1897/1899
Collection: Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
Accession Number: B1993.30.120
Medium: r.: watercolour; v.: charcoal
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 3/4 x 7 1/8" (273 x 181 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

r.: House front with a woman at the window; v.: Rosalind Birnie Philip

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1958: bequeathed by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.
  • 1968: deaccessioned, in a part exchange (for Copy after Ingres's 'Roger délivrant Angélique' [YMSM 011]) with Ira Spanierman (n/a) , art dealer, New York;
  • By 1986: bought by Davis and Long, New York dealers, and sold to Paul Mellon (1907-1999) ;
  • 1993: given to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1515).

Exhibitions

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

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret