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

 

M.1184
Street Scene: Loches

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888
Collection: Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Accession Number: D.1952.RW.3280
Medium: watercolour and gouache
Support: white wove paper
Size: 8 1/2 x 5" (216 x 127 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Street Scene: Loches

Site

Street Scene: Loches, Courtauld Institute Of Art
Street Scene: Loches, Courtauld Institute Of Art

The site was identified as Loches, France, by Whistler's sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) , who inherited and later sold the work. 1

Notes:

1: The site and date were queried in W. Bradford, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute, London, 1988 (cat. no. 42) 'Street Scene'. See also MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1184).

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret