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

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M.1642
At Sea

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1900/1901
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 1943.3.8818
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: cream wove paper, watermark of crown and ‘C.S.S.A.’
Size: 152 x 96 mm (6 3/8 x 3 3/4")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: ' "at Sea" / MS.981. From Canfield Coll. / 500.' and '40'

At Sea

Provenance

  • 1903: bought from Whistler by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914) , 8 May 1903;
  • 1914: sold on 12 March to Knoedler's, New York dealers;
  • 1917: sold on 13 January to Charles B. Eddy (1872-1951) .
  • 1938: bought on 15 April from Charles Sessler (1854-1935) , Philadelphia dealer, by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) ;
  • 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art;
  • 1980: moved from Alverthorpe Gallery to the National Gallery of Art.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1642).

Exhibitions

  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 158).

Last updated: 4th March 2021 by Margaret