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

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Mrs or Miss McNay

Provenance

  • Date unknown: owned by Henry Nazeby Harrington (1862-1937) , Birkenhead, UK.
  • 1928: bought on 30 October from Charles Sessler (1854-1935), Philadelphia, by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971) ;
  • 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art;
  • 1980: moved from Alverthorpe to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

The early provenance is not fully established.

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret