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

 

M.1417
Sketch of 'The Whitesmiths, Impasse des Carmélites'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1894
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: FGA Whistler
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: on cream laid paper, watermark of a crown and 'IMPERIAL CENTURY'
Size: 128 x 149 mm (5 1/16 x 5 7/8")
Signature: 'J McN Whistler' and butterfly on letter
Inscription: 'La Rétameur de l'Impasse'

Sketch of 'The Whitesmiths, Impasse des Carmélites'

Provenance

  • 1894: sent by Whistler to Joseph William Gleeson White (1851-1898) , editor of The Studio, London.
  • 1898/1899?: bought from a sale catalogue by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit;
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1417).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 5th March 2021 by Margaret