The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.0224
Maison, Rue Orbe

Maison, Rue Orbe

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1857/1858
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 7 3/8 x 4 3/16" (187 x 106 mm)
Signature: 'Whistler' [possibly by the artist]
Inscription: 'Maison - / Rue Orbe -' and, on shop, 'MENUISIER [ARBRE or AUBRE?]'

Date

Maison, Rue Orbe dates from 1857/1858.

Maison, Rue Orbe, private collection
Maison, Rue Orbe, private collection

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 224), but the inscription was incorrectly transcribed. This record has been updated.

Images

Maison, Rue Orbe, private collection
Maison, Rue Orbe, private collection

Subject

Site

Maison, Rue Orbe, private collection
Maison, Rue Orbe, private collection

This is the shop of a joiner or carpenter. There is a Rue Orbe in Rouen and another in Bayonne. It is likely this is in Rouen, an important city on the River Seine, capital of the region of Normandy.

Technique

Conservation History

According to the owner, Whistler gave her some 'trivial sketches', which she put in an album he had brought from Paris, 'with my name in gold, stamped outside', possibly at Christmas 1858. 1 These may have been removed and framed later, because she lent 'A frame of ten early pencil sketches' to the Whistler Memorial exhibition in 1905 (cat. no. 207), and these were unmounted and dispersed at a later date

History

Provenance

Exhibitions

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

Catalogues 1855-1905

Catalogues 1906-Present

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Notes:

1: Mrs Thynne to Pennell, 20 February 1907, Library of Congress.