The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Cemetery dates from about 1887; it closely resembles Cemetery m1161.

Cemetery, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1161).

Images

Subject

Site

Cemetery, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Cemetery, The Hunterian

The graveyard, shown in two drawings, this and Cemetery m1161, has not been identified..

Technique

Technique

Cemetery, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1162).

History

Provenance

• ca 1887: given by Whistler to Robert Goodloe Harper Pennington (1854 or 1855-d. 1920);
• Before 1904: given to Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), Boston;
• 1924: bequeathed to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1162).

Exhibitions

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

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1162) as Cemetery.

Websites

• Gardner Museum website at https://www.gardnermuseum.org, as 'Six figures in a landscape'.