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Object Details
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Description
- Draped female figure, holding a potted plant, posed before a folding screen; signed with the butterfly. Water color on brown paper.
- Signatures
- Yellow-orange butterfly at center of right edge.
- Paper/Support
- On rough, brown paper mounted overall to board.
- Provenance
- From 1894 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from James McNeill Whistler in 1894 [1]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Whistler List, Paintings, pg. 16, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [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.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Whistler in Watercolor (May 18 to November 3, 2019)
- The Lost Symphony: Whistler & the Perfection of Art (January 16 to May 30, 2016)
- Chinamania (2010) (August 7, 2010 to August 7, 2011)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Whistler as Decorator (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)
- American Paintings: James McNeill Whistler (November 11, 1976 to March 18, 1981)
- Whistler Pastels and Water Colors (July 1 to July 31, 1974)
- 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)
- Whistler Water Colors (January 7, 1924 to April 4, 1930)
- Whistler Pastels and Drawings, Re-arranged and some additions (January 7, 1924 to January 20, 1944)
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition (February 20 to December 4, 1915)
- Exposition des Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler (May 1905)
- Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler (February 23 to March 22, 1904)
- Philadelphia Water Color Club, Second Annual Exhibition (March 18 to April 1, 1903)
- The Copley Society Second Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art (November 19 to December 19, 1902)
- Previous custodian or owner
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- ca. 1893-1895
- Accession Number
- F1894.25a-c
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Watercolor with pastel and charcoal on brown paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 27.8 × 18.1 cm (10 15/16 × 7 1/8 in)
- Origin
- United States
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Whistler in Watercolor
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- mounting
- bone black
- cobalt blue
- Prussian blue
- brown iron oxide
- burnt sienna
- raw sienna
- raw umber
- organic red pigment
- iron oxide red
- vermilion
- zinc white
- Mars pigment
- yellow ocher
- underdrawing
- cadmium sulfide
- woman
- screen
- United States
- American Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1894.25a-c
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye347d5898f-f466-4fc9-8e2f-6e8a1fb2bdd8
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