The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
YMSM 364
Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea
Date
Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea probably dates from the mid-1880s. 1 It was first exhibited in 1887. 2
Images
Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea, Whereabouts Unknown
Subject
Titles
Only one title is known:
- 'Mauve et argent: Marchand de Chiffons (Chelsea)' (1887, Petit). 3
- 'Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea' (1980, YMSM). 4
The title translates as 'Mauve and silver: Rag-seller, Chelsea'.
Description
Probably a shop-front, with old clothes put out for sale.
Site
A rag-seller or old clothes merchant in Chelsea, London, UK. Whistler etched many such shops, including The Little Rag Shop, Milman's Row [265]. The Rag Shop, Milman's Row [290], Rag Shop, Milman's Row, Chelsea [329], and (though it is not Chelsea) Rag Shop, St Martin's Lane [328].
Old Clothes Shop, Houndsditch, The Hunterian
The site may have been similar to that seen in the unfinished oil sketch, Old Clothes Shop, Houndsditch y371, painted in the East End of London.
Technique
Technique
It is not known if this was an oil or watercolour.
Conservation History
Unknown.
History
Provenance
Unknown.
Exhibitions
- 1887: Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 209) as 'Mauve et argent: Marchand de Chiffons (Chelsea)'.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 364) as 'Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea'.
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1118) as 'Mauve et argent: Marchand de chiffons, Chelsea'.
Authored by Whistler
- None.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 209) as 'Mauve et argent: Marchand de Chiffons (Chelsea)'.
Journals 1855-1905
- None.
Monographs
- None.
Books on Whistler
- None.
Books, General
- None.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- None.
Journals 1906-Present
- None.
Websites
- None.
Unpublished
- None.
Other
- None.
Notes:
1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 364); MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1118).
2: Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 209).
3: Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1887 (cat. no. 209).
4: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 364); MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1118).