The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Flower market: Dieppe dates from 1885.

Flower market: Dieppe, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1026).

Images

Subject

Site

Flower market: Dieppe, Freer Gallery of Art

Dieppe, a town, port and holiday resort on the French coast.

Technique

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1026).

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

History

Provenance

• 1885: acquired from the artist by Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) (according to Sickert);
• 1907: sold by Sickert to Obach, London art dealers;
• 1907: bought from Obach's by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, on 22 October;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1026).

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.

By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be exhibited in 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. 1026) as 'Flower Market: Dieppe'.

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. 194, pl. 122.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1907.171a-b.
• Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.