The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Le Goûter du Modèle dates from 1871/1873.

Le Goûter du Modèle, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 405).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Not identified.

Technique

Technique

Le Goûter du Modèle, Freer Gallery of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 405).

History

Provenance

• Date unknown: at some time in Paris (label, B. Pénaud, Lazetier, Emballeur, 4 Rue Favart 4).
• 1903: with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London dealer;
• By 1904: owned by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904);
• 1904: on 7 June, Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, left a successful bid with Marchant for 14 drawings from the Forbes collection;
• 1919: bequeathed by Freer to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

• 1874: possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 12) as 'Seated Figure', priced at 10 gns.
• 1903: Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 178) and 1904 (cat. no. 3) as 'Le Goûter du Modèle'.
• 1904: Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also pictures lent by the executors of the late James Staats Forbes and others, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904 (cat. no. 252) as 'Female Figure Seated' or (cat. no. 259) as 'A Model of Japan'.
• : Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 389) as "Japanese Figure, Seated'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 405) as 'Le Goûter du Modèle.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 12) as 'Seated Figure', priced at 10 gns.
• Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 178) and 1904 (cat. no. 3) as 'Le Goûter du Modèle'.
• Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also pictures lent by the executors of the late James Staats Forbes and others, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904 (cat. no. 252) as 'Female Figure Seated' or (cat. no. 259) as 'A Model of Japan'.
• Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 389) as 'Japanese Figure, Seated'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 245, pl. 219.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.132a-b as 'Japanese Figure, Seated'.