The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0478.
Two men with a boat
Date
Two men with a boat dates from 1872/1878.
Two men with a boatMetropolitan Museum of Art,
The drawing is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 478).
Images
Two men with a boatMetropolitan Museum of Art,
Subject
Site
Two men with a boatMetropolitan Museum of Art,
The Battersea bank of the River Thames seen from the Chelsea shore.
Technique
Technique
Two men with a boatMetropolitan Museum of Art,
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no 478).
History
Provenance
- 1917: bought from Brown and Phillips, London art dealers, by the Metopolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund.
No further provenance is known.
Exhibitions
- It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no 478) as 'Two men with a boat'.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- MacDonald, Margaret, and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 2013-2014 (cat. no. 40), repr.
Websites
- Metropolitan Museum of Art website at https://www.metmuseum.org as 'Two Men and a Boat'.