The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0235
The Kitchen
Date
The Kitchen dates from between August and October 1858, during Whistler's etching tour of the Rhineland. It is a study for the etching The Kitchen [16], which was published in 'Douze Eaux-Fortes d'après Nature' (Twelve Etchings from Nature) in 1858.
The Kitchen, Freer Gallery of Art
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 235).
Images
The Kitchen, Freer Gallery of Art
The Kitchen, The Hunterian
Subject
Site
Unknown: it dates from Whistler's etching tour of the Rhineland.
Technique
Composition
The Kitchen, Freer Gallery of Art
The Kitchen, etching, The Hunterian
This is the preparatory study for the etching The Kitchen [16], possibly traced to transfer the outlines to the copper plate. As printed, the composition appears in reverse.
History
Provenance
- 1858: probably given to Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) or her husband Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910);
- 1898: sold through Wunderlich, New York dealers, to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919);
- 1919: bequeathed by C. L. Freer to the Freer Gallery of Art.
See further details in r.: Les Côtes à Dieppe; v.: Cliffs and building m0222.
Exhibitions
It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Due to the conditions of Freer's will, it cannot be lent to another venue.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 235) 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. 168, pl. 80.
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.153.
- Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.
- 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).