The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.0877
Amsterdam in Winter

Amsterdam in Winter

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1882
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.81a-b
Medium: watercolour
Support: cream paper, laid down on card
Size: 8 x 10 7/8" (204 x 277 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Date

Amsterdam in Winter dates from November/December 1882. It is dated from Whistler's known trip to Holland, and the signature.

Amsterdam in Winter, Freer Gallery of Art
Amsterdam in Winter, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 877).

Images

Amsterdam in Winter, Freer Gallery of Art
Amsterdam in Winter, Freer Gallery of Art

Subject

Site

Amsterdam in Winter, Freer Gallery of Art
Amsterdam in Winter, Freer Gallery of Art

Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands.

Technique

Technique

See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

History

Provenance

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 877).

Exhibitions

This was not, as suggested in the 1995 catalogue, exhibited in 1883; see Snow m0877a.

By the terms of Freer's will, this work can not be lent to another venue.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

Catalogues 1855-1905

Books on Whistler

Catalogues 1906-Present

Websites


Notes:

1: '49 or 58 Nocturne - black & gold } E. J. Poole Esq 2 Sussex Gardens, W', according to Messrs Dowdeswell, list sent to Whistler, [July 1885/1886], GUW #00867.