The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Boutique de Boucher, Saverne dates from September or October 1858, during Whistler's etching tour of the Rhineland.

Boutique de Boucher, Saverne, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 236).

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Subject

Site

Boutique de Boucher, Saverne, Freer Gallery of Art

Saverne (Zabern) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in north-eastern France.

Technique

Technique

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. 236) as 'Boutique de Boucher, Saverne'.

Books on Whistler

• Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 167, pl. 79.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.156, as 'Boutique de Boucher–Saverne'.
• Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.