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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.168
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
White and Grey: Courtyard, House in Dieppe
Other Titles
Former Title: Blue and Silver, Trouville
Former Title: White and Grey: La Cour de l'Hôtel, Dieppe
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1885
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230330

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
21.7 x 12.7 cm (8 9/16 x 5 in.)
framed: 37.8 x 28.6 x 4.5 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso, center of panel, handwritten text: [brown ink:] Whistler. No. 10 / [crossed out in pencil] / [graphite:] No 30 Y [?] / No. 10 yellow [crossed out] / HR/2767 [upside down]
  • inscription: verso, back of frame, impressed/stamped: M. Grieve Co. / Hand-Carved / New York and London

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[A. Reid, Glasgow], sold; to John James Cowan, November 1900. [Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1914]. [Macbeth Galleries, New York, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, probably before 1928, 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
1943.168
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Thomas R. Way, The Art of James McNeill Whistler: An Appreciation, George Bell and Sons, Ltd. (London, England, 1903), reproduced opposite page 64
  • Mortimer Menpes, Whistler as I Knew Him, Adam and Charles Black (London, 1904), reproduced opposite page 94
  • Andrew McLaren Young and Margaret F. MacDonald, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1980), vol. I: no. 325, p. 158; vol. II: reproduced in b/w, plate 207
  • Isabelle Enaud Lechien, Whistler et la France, Herscher (Paris, France, 1994), p. 44-45, reproduced in color
  • Isabelle Enaud Lechien, James Whistler: Le paintre et le polémiste, ACR PocheCouleur (Paris, France, 1995), p. 138-9, reproduced in color
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), p. 489, fig. 1
  • 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. 425, cat. no. 451, reproduced in b&w

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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