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

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M.1527
The Green Cap

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892, 1902
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1902.112a-c
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 7-7 1/16 x 10 3/4-10 7/8" (178-180 x 273-276 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

The Green Cap

Provenance

  • 1902: bought from Whistler by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit, 16 June;
  • 1919: bequeathed by to the Freer Gallery of Art.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1527).

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. 131) as 'The Green Cap'.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret