Object Details
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Description
- A green meadow, with a house and trees in the distance; a child stands in the foreground, with another figure beyond. Signed with the butterfly at lower left.
- Signatures
- Red butterfly in lower left corner
- Inscriptions
- Verso: 'Green & Silver' / Beaulieu, Touraine
- Paper/Support
- On a manufactured, rough-weave, fabric support with a white lead ground layer mounted to board. There is a manufacturer's stamp in blue ink reading "E. Mary & Fils/26, Rue Chaptal, Paris" on the verso of the board.
- Provenance
- 1899
- Goupil et Cie, London 1899 [1]
- From 1899 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Goupil et Cie, London in 1899 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] Undated folder sheet note, Object file. Also see Original Whistler List, Paintings, pg. 17, 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)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and the Landscape (May 11, 1984 to February 5, 1985)
- Whistler Water Colors (January 7, 1924 to April 4, 1930)
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition (February 20 to December 4, 1915)
- Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler (February 23 to March 22, 1904)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Goupil et Cie (1829-1919) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 1888
- Accession Number
- F1899.25a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Watercolor on fabric mounted on board
- Dimensions
- H x W: 12.9 × 21.6 cm (5 1/16 × 8 1/2 in)
- Origin
- United States
- Related Online Resources
- Google Arts & Culture
- 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
- cerulean blue
- Prussian blue
- burnt sienna
- raw sienna
- burnt umber
- raw umber
- viridian
- iron oxide red
- vermilion
- lead white
- chrome yellow
- Mars pigment
- yellow ocher
- indigo
- child
- United States
- American Art
- house
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1899.25a-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye373a25f67-acd0-4994-a03f-68a5cc3d178f
