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

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A Yellow Note

Provenance

  • 1902: bought on 30 May from Obach, London dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , but left with Whistler for retouching;
  • 1903: possibly sent to Freer on 30 July, with other works retouched by Whistler, by William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London dealer;
  • 1919: bequeathed by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) to the Freer Gallery of Art.

The early provenance is unclear. It may have also belonged to Alexander Constantine Ionides (1810-1890) and family, and it may have been a pastel of a nude owned by Miss Samuda at 32 Albion Street in London, and seen by C. L. Freer in 1902. 1

Details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 418).

Notes:

1: C. L .Freer, 1902, Diary, vol. 12, FGA.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret