The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.0133
'Vive les Débardeurs!!'

'Vive les Débardeurs!!'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.34
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: off-white wove paper laid down in an album
Size: 4 13/16 x 2 3/16" (122 x 56 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Vive les Debardeures!!' [sic]

Date

'Vive les Débardeurs!!' dates from 1853/1854 and was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and family, who stuck it in an album.

'Vive les Débardeurs!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art
'Vive les Débardeurs!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 133).

Images

'Vive les Débardeurs!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art
'Vive les Débardeurs!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject

Sitter

'Vive les Débardeurs!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art
'Vive les Débardeurs!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art

'Débardeurs' were French dockworkers or longshoremen. Whistler was inspired by the series Les Débardeurs by Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). See also Le Débardeur m0037.

Technique

Conservation History

The sketch was originally stuck into an album.

History

Provenance

Exhibitions

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

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