Object Details
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Description
- A girl seated on a bed, reading; signed with the butterfly at right edge on bedcover.
- Signatures
- Pink butterfly near center at right edge
- Paper/Support
- On cold-pressed, wove paper. Small graphite sight lines visible near both bottom corners.
- Provenance
- To 1902
- Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), London, to 1902 [1]
- From 1902 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Henry Studdy Theobald in 1902 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Whistler List, Purchases from Thoebald, pg. 4, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Voucher No. 1, August 1902,
- 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)
- Sweet Silent Thought: Whistler's Interiors (August 20, 2011 to August 26, 2012)
- Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-garde in Victorian London, 1883 (November 20, 2003 to April 4, 2004)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and the Figure (May 11, 1984 to December 16, 1984)
- Whistler Pastels and Water Colors (July 1 to July 31, 1974)
- Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 10 and 11 (February 25, 1956 to November 3, 1959)
- 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)
- Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Watercolors, Oil Paintings, and Pastels (January 20, 1944 to October 13, 1947)
- Whistler Pastels and Drawings, Re-arranged and some additions (January 7, 1924 to January 20, 1944)
- Whistler Water Colors (January 7, 1924 to April 4, 1930)
- American Paintings, Pastels, and Water Colors, and Drawings. J.A.McN. Whistler (May 2, 1923 to January 7, 1924)
- Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture (1887)
- Annual Exhibition of Sketches, Pictures, and Photography (1884)
- "Notes"—"Harmonies"—"Nocturnes" (May 1884)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 1883-1884
- Accession Number
- F1902.158a-c
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 25.3 x 15.5 cm (9 15/16 x 6 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
- crop marks
- bone black
- cerulean blue
- Prussian blue
- raw sienna
- iron oxide red
- vermilion
- zinc white
- cadmium yellow
- Mars pigment
- yellow ocher
- child
- reading
- United States
- American Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1902.158a-c
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye37ca2d5f7-1332-42ff-b175-0619d90c8548
