The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Seated seamstress with male companion dates from about 1858.

Seated seamstress with male companion, Freer Gallery of Art

Fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 288).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Seated seamstress with male companion, Freer Gallery of Art

Probably Eloise ('Fumette') (fl. 1840-1858).

Technique

Technique

Seated seamstress with male companion, Freer Gallery of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 288).

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. 288) as 'Seated seamstress with male companion'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 233, pl. 197.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.166, as 'Seated seamstress with male companion'.