The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.1118
Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea
Date
Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea was exhibited in 1887.
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1118).
Images
Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea, Whereabouts unknown
Chelsea Rags, lithograph, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Subject
Site
Whistler drew, etched and painted old clothes shops and other second hand shops in London, particularly in the East End and in Chelsea.
Chelsea Rags, lithograph, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Examples are the etchings The Little Rag Shop, Milman's Row [265] and The Rag Shop, Milman's Row [290], and the lithograph Chelsea Rags c026.
Technique
Technique
This could have been an oil or watercolour painting.
History
Provenance
Unknown.
Exhibitions
- 1887: Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 209) as 'Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea'.
This could have been an oil (see Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea y364) or watercolour.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1118) as 'Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea'.
- Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 364).
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 209) as 'Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea'.