The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Cuisine à Lûtzelbourg dates from August or September 1858, during Whistler's etching tour of the Rhineland.

Cuisine à Lûtzelbourg, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 232).

Images

Subject

Site

Lutzelbourg is a village and commune in the valley of the river Moselle in what is now known as Alsace-Lorraine in north-eastern France. It is east of Nancy and north-west of Strasbourg.

Technique

Composition

This is one of three drawings that may be preparatory studies for the etching The Kitchen [16].

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. 232) as 'Cuisine à Lûtzelbourg'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 169, fig. 81.1.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.151, as 'Cuisine a Lutzelbourg'.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012 (cat. no. 16) website (G. 16).