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Artist:
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)  Search this
Medium:
Watercolor on Japanese paper
Dimensions:
H x W: 26.7 x 18.2 cm (10 1/2 x 7 3/16 in)
Type:
Painting
Origin:
United States
Date:
1890-1895
Description:
Nude figure in a blue cap, seated on a draped couch, with a nude child standing on her lap; signed with the butterfly at right.
Signatures:
Pink butterfly above center at right edge
Paper/Support:
On Japanese, laid paper mounted to a 2-ply board. There are 3.6 cm between chain lines and nine laid lines per cm.
Provenance:
To 1913
Wallis and Son, The French Gallery, London, to 1913 [1]
From 1913 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Wallis and Son, The French Gallery in 1913 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Accession List, Collections Management office, as well as List of Whistler Purchases since Making up the Smithsonian Inventory, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Whistler in Watercolor (May 18 to November 3, 2019)
Whistler's Nudes (April 21, 2002 to January 5, 2003)
Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Paintings and Drawings (December 14, 1955 to February 25, 1956)
Untitled Exhibition, Works of Whistler (September 22, 1947 to April 11, 1955)
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (February 20 to December 4, 1915)
Exposition des Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler (May 1905)
Untitled Exhibition, Saint Petersburg, 1897 (1897)
Previous custodian or owner:
Wallis and Son, The French Gallery (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
Topic:
mounting  Search this
yellow pigment  Search this
bone black  Search this
cerulean blue  Search this
Prussian blue  Search this
burnt sienna  Search this
raw sienna  Search this
burnt umber  Search this
iron oxide red  Search this
vermilion  Search this
zinc white  Search this
Mars pigment  Search this
yellow ocher  Search this
child  Search this
woman  Search this
United States  Search this
American Art  Search this
Charles Lang Freer collection  Search this
Credit Line:
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number:
F1913.48a-c
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
Related Online Resources:
Google Cultural Institute
Whistler in Watercolor
See more items in:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
Data Source:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye33929725d-87a5-47fc-8321-ee3e85cb8447
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:fsg_F1913.48a-c