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

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M.0698
r.: Seated figure; v.: Dragonflies and a butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.152a-b
Medium: r.: chalk and pastel; v.: chalk and watercolour
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 1/2 x 6 13/16" (267 x 173 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none
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r.: Seated figure; v.: Dragonflies and a butterfly

Provenance

  • By 1905: owned by Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London;
  • 1905: bought in June from Way by bought from Way by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in June 1905
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 698).

Exhibitions

By the terms of Freer's will the drawing can not be lent to other venues.

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret