1943.170: Ajaccio, Corsica
PaintingsThis painting is dominated by a large, wide green hill that extends nearly to the top of the canvas. A house with a black roof stands at the peak of the hill. Darker green areas on the hill resemble shadows or differences in vegetation. At the base of the hill closer to the foreground is a wide plane. A low black and white structure stands on the border between them. Chickens stand all around and on top of it. To the left, an adult figure holds onto the arms of a child in a bonnet.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.170
- People
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
- Title
- Ajaccio, Corsica
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1901
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230027
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on wood panel
- Dimensions
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12.4 x 21.6 cm (4 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
frame: 28.6 x 37.8 x 4.5 cm (11 1/4 x 14 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r.: Butterfly monogram
- inscription: verso, on panel, graphite: 28y[?]
- inscription: verso, on panel, white chalk: AJACCIO
- inscription: verso of frame, impressed: [worn off text] VE / HAND CARVED / NEW YORK & LONDON
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Hunt Henderson, New Orleans, bequest; to Tulane University, 1939, sold [through Macdonald Gallery, New York]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, April 1941, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.170
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Denys Sutton, James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Etchings, Pastels and Watercolors, Phaidon Press (London, England, 1966), reproduced fig. 120, text p. 196
- Andrew McLaren Young and Margaret F. MacDonald, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1980), vol. I: p. 227, no. 546; vol. II: reproduced in b/w pl. 360
- Isabelle Enaud Lechien, Whistler et la France, Herscher (Paris, France, 1994), pp. 62-63, reproduced in color
- Isabelle Enaud Lechien, James Whistler: Le paintre et le polémiste, ACR PocheCouleur (Paris, France, 1995), pp. 184-185, reproduced in color
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 438-39, cat. no. 465, reproduced in b&w, p. 439
Exhibition History
- For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
- 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/24/2023 - 10/21/2024
Verification Level
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