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

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M.0233
The Kitchen

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1858
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1898.152
Medium: pencil, watercolour and gouache
Support: cream laid paper, with watermark of a laurel wreath around a shield, tipped down
Size: 11 7/8-12 1/8 x 7 3/4-7 13/16" (301-308 x 197-199 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r: 'SH', possibly by F. S. Haden; v: inscribed with multiplications etc, 'George Whistler' twice, 'James: A: Whistler' twice, and 'Erneste Delannoy' twice

The Kitchen

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 233) as 'The Kitchen'.

Books on Whistler

  • Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 169, pl. 81.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.152, as 'The Kitchen'.
  • Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.
  • 'The Kitchen', Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, URL.
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012 (cat. no. 16) website (G. 16).

Last updated: 5th December 2020 by Margaret