Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Le Rhin

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1858
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1898.200
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 6 x 6 1/2-6 11/16" (153 x 166-168 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Le Rhin' and (on book) 'La Foire aux Vanités / Thackiry [sic]' by Whistler: 'SH', possibly by F. S. Haden; '1858' in an unknown hand
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Le Rhin

Le Rhin dates from between August and October 1858 and was probably given to Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) or her husband Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910).

Le Rhin, Freer Gallery of Art
Le Rhin, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 261).

Last updated: 2nd March 2021 by Margaret