The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Village shop, Chelsea dates from 1883/1884.

Village shop, Chelsea, National Gallery of Art

This work is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 950).

Images

Subject

Site

Village shop, Chelsea, National Gallery of Art

Chelsea, a district north of the Thames, in London. A label on the back of the frame gives the title 'Village Shop, Chelsea'.

Technique

Technique

Village shop, Chelsea, National Gallery of Art

See discussion in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 950).

History

Provenance

• 1903: with Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd, London art dealers.
• Date unknown: acquired by John Prince Elton (1865-1948), Waterbury, Connecticut;
• 1948-1984: passed by family descent to J. P. Elton's grand-daughter;
• 1984: bought by Knoedler's, New York dealers, and sold to a private collector, Los Angeles, on 1 December (#KMC1357);
• 1987: bought by Hope Davis, New York art dealer;
• 1988: bought by Paul Mellon (1907-1999) and Mrs Rachel Lambert Mellon (1910-2014);
• 1991: given to the National Gallery of Art.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 950).

Exhibitions

Not, as far as is known, 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. 950) as 'Village shop, Chelsea'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Scott, William, 'Reminiscences of Whistler. Some Venice Recollections', The Studio, vol. 30, November 1903, pp. 97-108, repr. f.p. 102 as 'A Study (houses)'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1991, pp. 222-23, repr.

Websites

• National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov.