The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

A la ferme de Maladrie dates from August 1858, during Whistler's etching tour of the Rhineland.

A la ferme de Maladrie, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 230).

Images

Subject

Site

A la ferme de Maladrie, Freer Gallery of Art

A farm in or near Maladrie, a small country town in the province of Namur, Belgium. On another page from his sketchbook , Whistler drew Chambre à la ferme de Maladrie m0229. The two artists probably slept and ate at farms along their route.

Sitter

This shows Whistler's companion, Ernest Delannoy (d. 1869/1872), sleeping on a bench at the end of a bed.

Technique

Conservation History

Over fifty drawings, many in sketchbooks, most of which dated from 1857-1858, were apparently given to Whistler's half-sister Deborah and/or her husband, Francis Seymour Haden, and were later removed from the sketchbooks.

History

Provenance

• 1858: probably given to Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) or her husband Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910);
• 1898: sold through Wunderlich, New York dealers, to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919);
• 1919: bequeathed by C. L. Freer to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See further details in r.: Les Côtes à Dieppe; v.: Cliffs and building m0222.

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Due to the conditions of Freer's will, it cannot be lent to another venue.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 230) as 'A la ferme de Maladrie'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 217, pl. 162.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.181, as 'A la Ferme de Maladrie',