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

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YMSM 546
Ajaccio, Corsica

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.170
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 124 x 216 mm (4 7/8 x 8 1/2")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Ajaccio, Corsica

Provenance

  • Date unknown: acquired by Hunt Henderson (1869-1939) , New Orleans;
  • 1939: bequeathed to Tulane University, New Orleans;
  • 1941: sold through the Macdonald Gallery, New York, to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943) , New York, in April I941;
  • 1943: bequeathed by him to Harvard University.

The early provenance of this panel is not known.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime, as far as is known.

Last updated: 25th November 2020 by Margaret