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

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YMSM 175
Panels from the Entrance Hall at 49 Princes Gate

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.458-74
Medium: oil and gold leaf
Support: wood
Size: dimensions of panels only: 26.5 x 58.0 cm, 32.7 x 50.5 cm, 32.8 x 50.5 cm, 42.6 x 58.5 cm, 32.8 x 49.7 cm, 37.0 x 51.5 cm, 37.0 x 51.1 cm, 36.8 x 50.8 cm, 36.8 x 51.1 cm, 36.8 x 51.1 cm, 36.8 x 51.1 cm, 36.8 x 51.1 cm, 25.0 x 43.3 cm, 37.2 x 43.8 cm, 36.8 x 51.1 cm, 36.8 x 51.5 cm, 36.8 x 44.8cm. (10 3/8 x 22 7/8", 12 7/8 x 19 7/8", 12 7/8 x 19 7/8", 16 ¾ x 23", 12 7/8 x 19 5/8", 14 5/8 x 20 ¼", 14 5/8 x 20 1/8", 14 ½ x 20", 14 ½ x 20 1/8", 14 ½ x 20 1/8", 14 ½ x 20 1/8", 141/2 x 20 1/8", 9 7/8 x 17 1/8", 14 5/8 x 17 ¼", 14 ½ x 20 1/8", 14 ½ x 20 ¼" , 14 ½ x 17 5/8")
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: none
Frame: wooden

Panels from the Entrance Hall at 49 Princes Gate

Titles

The suggested title is as follows:

  • 'Panels from the Entrance Hall at 49 Princes Gate' (1980, YMSM). 1

Description

Panel from the Entrance Hall at 49 Princes Gate, Freer Gallery of Art
Panel from the Entrance Hall at 49 Princes Gate, Freer Gallery of Art

In 1890 Theodore Child (1846-1892) described the decorations on the staircase as, 'panels imitating aventurine lacquer, decorated with delicate sprigs of pale rose and white flowers in the Japanese taste.' 2

The panels are varying quadrilateral shapes, and are now much darkened, but the freely painted intertwined flowers and leaves of the convolvulus are visible, if faint. The gilding has darkened considerably.

Site

Formerly installed in 49 Princes Gate, London.

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 175).

2: Child 1890 [more] .

Last updated: 20th May 2021 by Margaret