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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.178
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Violet and Blue: The Little Bathers, Pérosquérie
Other Titles
Former Title: Violet et Bleu: Les Petits Baigneurs, Pérosquérie
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1888
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230033

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
12.4 × 21.7 cm (4 7/8 × 8 9/16 in.)
support: 12.7 × 21 cm (5 × 8 1/4 in.)
framed: 28.6 x 37.8 x 4.5 cm (11 1/4 x 14 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Butterfly monogram
  • label: Label on back of panel, typed, part torn off: PALAIS DE L'ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS. / EXPOSITION DES ŒUVRES DE / JAMES McNEILL WHISTL [cut off] / Paris, Mai, 1905. / Description [handwritten:] Violet et [cut off] / les petits Baig[cut off] / Prêté par [handwritten:] d [cut off] / 17 Sav Raille sts. Londres
  • stamp: verso of frame, impressed: M. Grieve Co. / Hand-Carved / New York and London
  • inscription: verso of panel, graphite: 13

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possible sale by the artist [through D.C. Thomson of Goupil, London]. A. Arnold Hannay, by 1902. William Marchant, by 1921. [Scott and Fowles, New York], sold; to Hunt Henderson, 1922, bequest; to Tulane University, 1929, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1941, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.178
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study with a Tentative List of the Artist's Work, Moffat, Yard and Company (New York, 1907), no. 219, p. 192
  • Bernhard Sickert, Whistler, Duckworth & Co. (London, England, 1908), no. 151, p. 171
  • Andrew McLaren Young and Margaret F. MacDonald, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1980), vol. I, p. 171, no. 382, and reproduced in vol. II pl. 227, color
  • Robin Spencer, ed., Whistler: A Retrospective, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (New York, NY, 1989), reproduced in color pl. 93, p. 228
  • 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. 428-29, cat. no. 456, reproduced in b&w, p. 429

Exhibition History

  • L'Oeuvre de James McNeill Whistler, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 05/01/1905 - 06/30/1905
  • 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

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