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

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M.1695
r.: The Gossips. Ajaccio; v.: group of people

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Accession Number: 1942.1
Medium: r.: pencil, pen, black ink and watercolour; v.: pen and black ink
Support: brown paper, laid down on card with stamp of W. Holland, 12 Sherwood Street, Golden Square, London, W.
Size: 275 x 179 mm (10 13/16 x 7 1/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'The Gossips / Ajaccio' on label on backboard

r.: The Gossips. Ajaccio; v.: group of people

Provenance

  • 1903: bought from Whistler on 8 May by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914) ;
  • 1914: bought on 12 March by Knoedler's, New York dealers;
  • 1914: sold in April to Anson Conger Goodyear (1877-1964), Buffalo and Chicago;
  • 1942: presented to the Albright-Knox Gallery.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1695)

Exhibitions

  • 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 110).
  • 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 95).

Last updated: 15th February 2021 by Margaret