The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Street, Corsica dates from February/April 1901.

Street, Corsica, private collection

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1653).

Images

Subject

Site

Street, Corsica, private collection

Ajaccio, Corsica.

Technique

Technique

Street, Corsica, private collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1653).

History

Provenance

• 1903: bought on 8 May from Whistler by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914), Providence, RI;
• 1914: bought on 12 March by Knoedler's, New York dealers;
• 1928: sold, in October, to John David Wooster Lambert (1889-1976), St Louis;
• 1976: bequeathed to his widow, Mary Lambert;
• 1983: bought by Davis and Langdale, New York dealers, and sold to a private collector, London;
• 1993: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 23 September 1993 (lot 124).

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1653).

Exhibitions

• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 164) as "Algiers – ‘A Street’ ".

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1653) as 'Street, Corsica'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Copley Society (ed.), Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels & Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 164) as "Algiers – ‘A Street’ ".

Books, General

• Duret, Théodore, trans. by Frank Rutter, Whistler, English edition, London, 1917, repr. f. p. 118.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Oils, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by James McNeill Whistler lent by Mr. Richard Canfield Buffalo, 1911 (cat. no. 39).
• Oils, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by J. McN. Whistler, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1914 (cat. no. 31).
• MacDonald, Margaret F., Notes, Harmonies, and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1984 (cat. 100).