- Provenance
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To 1906
M. Knoedler & Co., London, Paris, and New York, NY, to 1906 [1]From 1906 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from M. Knoedler & Co. in 1906 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Whistler List, Drawings, pg. 1, 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.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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M. Knoedler & Co. (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
- Label
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This undated drawing was probably completed shortly after Whistler's arrival in Paris. Whistler's straw hat hangs from the wall. The book on the floor refers to the eighteenth-century Swiss artist Henry Fuseli (1741-1825).
- Published References
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- Daniel E. Sutherland. Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake. .
- Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours : A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, 1995. .
- David Park Curry. James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1984. pp. 13, 123, 210, pl. 147.
- Katharine Lochnan. The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. New Haven and London, 1984. p. 19.
- Linda Merrill. A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin. Washington and London. p. 21, fig. 8.
- Nancy Dorfman Pressly. Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings. vol. 5 New York, 1972. p. 146, fig. 33.
- David Park Curry. James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces. Richmond and New York, 2004. p. 223, fig. 6.3.
- Collection Area(s)
- American Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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