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

 

M.1592
Beach scene with a breakwater

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899/1900
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Accession Number: WA1962.17.83
Medium: watercolour
Support: off-white Japan paper, laid down on card
Size: 213 x 126 mm (8 7/16 x 4 15/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Beach scene with a breakwater

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio in 1903 and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1943: sold to Colnaghi's, London art dealers, 27 March 1943;
  • 1943: bought by Francis Falconer Madan (1886-1961) , 7 May;
  • 1961: bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum.

Exhibitions

None in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 23rd April 2021 by Margaret