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

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M.1593
Sailboats in blue water

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899/1900
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.332
Medium: watercolour
Support: off-white Japanese paper, tipped down on card
Size: 216 x 129 mm (8 1/2 x 5 1/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Sailboats in blue water

Provenance

  • 1921: bequeathed by Antonie, Mrs E. Amsinck (d. 1921), widow of Ludwig Edwin Amsinck (d. 1897) , to the Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
  • 1926: sold on 26 May to the Galerie Commeter, Hamburg;
  • 1927: bought (as 'Maine') through Martin Birnbaum (1878-1970) by Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943) , 1 December 1927;
  • 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum.

Earlier provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

None known in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret