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

Street, Corsica, private collection
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
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1903: bought on 8 May from Whistler by Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914), Providence, RI;
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1914: bought on 12 March by Knoedler's, New York dealers;
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1928: sold, in October, to John David Wooster Lambert (1889-1976), St Louis;
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1976: bequeathed to his widow, Mary Lambert;
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1983: bought by Davis and Langdale, New York dealers, and sold to a private collector, London;
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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
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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
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Oils, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings by James McNeill Whistler lent by Mr. Richard Canfield Buffalo, 1911 (cat. no. 39).
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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).