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

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M.1647
Shops (Algiers)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1900
Collection: Private collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: white paper, laid down on card
Size: 140 x 230 mm (5 1/2 x 9 1/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Shops (Algiers)

Provenance

  • 1947: with Alphonse Kann (1870-1948), art dealer (label).
  • 1990: sold from a private collection, through an art dealer, to Ewan Mundy, Glasgow art dealer;
  • After 1995: sold to a private collection.

The early history is unknown. For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1647).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 4th March 2021 by Margaret