The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

A kitchen probably dates from 1858, during Whistler's etching tour of the Rhineland.

A kitchen, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 234).

Images

Subject

Site

A kitchen, Freer Gallery of Art

Unknown: it dates from Whistler's etching tour of the Rhineland. It has been associated with Lutzelberg but there is no evidence to support this.

Technique

Composition

A kitchen, Freer Gallery of Art

The Kitchen, etching, The Hunterian

This is one of three drawings related to the etching The Kitchen [16].

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. 234) as 'A Kitchen'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 168, fig. 80.1.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website as 'A Kitchen at Lutzelbourg'.