- Provenance
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From 1890 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from the artist in 1890 [1]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]Notes:
[1] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Also, according to Kenneth Myers, label text for "Whistler's Greatest Etchings: The 1889 Amsterdam Set," Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, June 28, 2003 - February 1, 2004, this object was "purchased from Whistler, Detroit, May 1890."
[2] 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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James McNeill Whistler (C.L. Freer source) 1834-1903
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
- Label
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Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G451 state 5 of 10.
- Published References
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- Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonée., 2012. .
- Daniel E. Sutherland. Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake. .
- Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Chicago, 1909. .
- Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler: Illustrated by Reproductions in Collotype of the Different States of the Plates. 4 vols., New York, 1910. .
- Michael Howard. Whistler: The History and Techniques of the Great Masters. Secaucus, New Jersey. p. 14.
- With Kindest Regards: The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler 1890-1903. Washington. p. 55, pl. 7.
- David Park Curry. James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1984. p. 146, fig. 53.1.
- Katharine Lochnan. The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. New Haven and London, 1984. p. 251.
- Collection Area(s)
- American Art
- Web Resources
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