The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sun and silver – La Petite Crémerie, Paris was exhibited in 1886.

Sun and silver – La Petite Crémerie, Paris, photograph, Library of Congress

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1015).

Images

Subject

Site

Sun and silver – La Petite Crémerie, Paris, photograph, Library of Congress

A shop in Paris, France (although the photograph mentions 'Boulogne').

Technique

Technique

Sun and silver – La Petite Crémerie, Paris, photograph, Library of Congress

The Sun on 10 March 1889 gave a useful description: 'a corner shop in Paris done all in white, with but a touch of green in two small potted plants beside the door. Nothing could be more luminous, delicate, exquisite, nothing could have been touched with a lighter, more masterly hand.'

It is known to the authors only from a photograph.

History

Provenance

• 1889: bought from Wunderlich's, New York dealers, by William Loring Andrews (1837-1927);
• 1920: bequeathed to his wife Jane Crane Andrews (1840-1930);
• 1931: sold after her death, Parke-Bernet, New York, 25 March 1931 (lot 15) as 'White and Silver: Cremerie, Paris' and bought by 'E. D. Robinson'.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1015).

Exhibitions

• 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 33) as 'Sun and silver – La Petite Cremerie, Paris'.
• 1887: Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 196) as 'Blanc et or: La Crémerie'.
• 1888: III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 42) as 'Stimmung in Silber: Crémerie. Paris'.
• 1889: “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 17) as 'White and Silver – Cremerie – Paris.'

The Sun on 10 March 1889 commended it: 'Nothing could be more luminous, delicate, exquisite, nothing could have been touched with a lighter, more masterly hand.' ¹

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1015) as 'Sun and silver – La Petite Crémerie, Paris.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 33) as 'Sun and silver – La Petite Cremerie, Paris'.
• Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 196) as 'Blanc et or: La Crémerie'.
• III. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Königlicher Glaspalast, Munich, 1888 (cat. no. 42) as 'Stimmung in Silber: Crémerie. Paris'.
• “Notes” – “Harmonies” – “Nocturnes”, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1889 (cat. no. 17) as 'White and Silver – Cremerie – Paris.'

Newspapers 1855-1905

• Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Pictures at the Wunderlich Gallery', The Sun, New York, 10 March 1889, p. 14.