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

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M.1518
Street in Bourges

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888
Collection: Cumner Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
Accession Number: C.197
Medium: watercolour
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 8 1/2 x 5 1/8" (215 x 130 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Street in Bourges

Provenance

  • 1899: 'Drawing - Bourges' sold by Whistler to Wunderlich's, New York art dealers, for £40.0.0; 1
  • 1900: sold to Harris Whittemore (1864-1927) , Naugatuck, CT;
  • 1927: passed to the J. H. Whittemore Co.;
  • 1948: sold at auction, Parke-Bernet, New York, 19-20 May 1948 (lot 61), bought by Macbeth, New York dealers.
  • 1951: bought from Grand Central Galleries by Mrs Ninah M. H. Cummer (1875-1958);
  • 1958: bequeathed by Mrs Cummer to the Cummer Art Gallery.

Exhibitions

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

Notes:

1: H. Wunderlich and Co. to Whistler, 6 April 1900, GUW #07322.

Last updated: 25th February 2021 by Margaret