Object Details
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Description
- Women, one holding an umbrella, inspect market stalls before shop fronts with awnings; unsigned.
- Signatures
- Unsigned.
- Paper/Support
- On hot-pressed, wove paper.
- Provenance
- To 1907
- Obach & Co., London, to 1907 [1]
- From 1907 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1907 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See List of Whistler Purchases Since Making Up the Smithsonian Inventory, pg. 4, 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: Streetscapes, Urban Change (November 18, 2023 to May 4, 2024)
- Whistler in Watercolor (May 18 to November 3, 2019)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and Modern Life (May 11, 1984 to December 16, 1984)
- James McNeill Whistler Pastels, Etchings, Paintings, Watercolors (November 11, 1976 to June 24, 1977)
- Whistler Pastels and Water Colors (July 1 to July 31, 1974)
- Whistler Water Colors (January 7, 1924 to April 4, 1930)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Obach & Co. (1884-1911) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 1885
- Accession Number
- F1907.171a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 12.8 x 21 cm (5 1/16 x 8 1/4 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
- bone black
- Prussian blue
- burnt sienna
- raw sienna
- viridian
- iron oxide red
- vermilion
- zinc white
- chrome yellow
- Mars pigment
- yellow ocher
- indigo
- cadmium sulfide
- commerce
- United States
- American Art
- store front
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1907.171a-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3c81817a6-9a00-4530-8b31-ba2caf13d3c9
