The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0174
Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I, after De La Roche
Date
Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I, after De La Roche dates from 1854. It was given to an instructor at USMA, West Point, Henry Coppée (1821-1895).
Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I, after De La Roche, private collection
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 174).
Images
Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I, after De La Roche, private
collection
Subject
Description
Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I, after De La Roche, private collection
The central figure, Oliver Cromwell, raises the lid of the coffin, at left, to look down at the dead body of Charles 1. At right, a faint figure peers round a doorway at the scene.
Technique
Composition
Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I, after De La Roche, private collection
A copy from the print by John Sartain (1808-1897) after a painting by Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) that was shown at the Salon in 1831, a replica of which is in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
History
Provenance
- 1854: given to Henry Coppée (1821-1895), West Point;
- 1895: bequeathed to his daughter Ellen Marion Coppée (1854-1881), who married William Wharton Thurston (1852-1890), nephew of Joseph Wharton (1826-1909);
- 1890: probably inherited by their children, Edward Coppée Thurston (1874–1928), Joseph Wharton Thurston (1876–1947), and William Wharton Thurston (1878–1944);
- 1908: accepted in payment of debts by Joseph Wharton (1826-1909);
- 1909: bought from his estate by his daughter Anna, Mrs Harrison Smith Morris (1868-1957);
- 1957: passed by family descent to a private collection;
- 1993: sold by G. J. S. White, Newport Estates Auction, Rhode Island, 11 August 1993 (lot 102, repr.) and bought by Richard E. Blodgett Jr.
The family relationships are complex and it is not absolutely certain what happened to the picture between 1890 and 1908. See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 174); this record has been revised.
Exhibitions
- 1899: Sixty-eighth Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1899 (cat. no. 590) as 'Cromwell at the Biew of Charles I'.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 174) as 'Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I, after De La Roche'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Sixty-eighth Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1899 (cat. no. 590) as 'Cromwell at the Biew of Charles I'.
Books on Whistler
- Sutherland, Daniel E., Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 27.