The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.1658
Museum interior (?) with a man seated
Date
Museum interior (?) with a man seated probably dates from 1901.
Museum interior (?) with a man seated, Metropolitan Museum, New York
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1658).
Images
Museum interior (?) with a man seated, Metropolitan Museum, New York
Subject
Site
Museum interior (?) with a man seated, Metropolitan Museum, New York
Ajaccio, Corsica. Miss Birnie Philip tentatively identified as the museum, where Whistler was given facilities to work.
Technique
Technique
Museum interior (?) with a man seated, Metropolitan Museum, New York
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1658).
Conservation History
This sheet was probably taken from a sketchbook.
History
Provenance
- 1903: in the artist's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
- 1956: sold on 11 May by Miss Birnie Philip to P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd, London art dealers;
- 1957: bought on 5 November by Alister Mathews (1907-1985), art dealer, Bournemouth, who sold it to an American collector.
- Date unknown: bought by Robert Owen Lehman (1891-1969);
- 1969: bequeathed to the Robert Lehman Foundation Inc.;
- 1970: the Lehman Collection was transferred to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1658).
Exhibitions
None 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. 1658) as as 'Museum interior (?) with a man seated'.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Clark, Carol, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Robert Lehman Collection, vol. 8, New York and Princeton, 1992 pp. 3–4.
Websites
- Metropolitan Museum of Art website at metmuseum.org.