Object Details
- Description
- Kitchen interior with female figure standing just beyond the stove, a doorway in the background.
- Signatures
- Unsigned.
- Paper/Support
- On antique laid paper with vertical chain lines. There are 2.5 cm between chain lines and ten laid lines per cm. An upside-down watermark appears to the left of center featuring leaves that form an oval wreath around a shield with the initials LL inside.
- Provenance
- Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London [1]
- To 1898
- H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1898 [2]
- From 1898 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co., through Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), in November 1898 [3]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Whistler List, Haden Collection Drawings, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See Voucher No. 20, November 1898, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [3] See note 2.
- [4] 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)
- Off the Beaten Path: Early Works by James McNeill Whistler (September 28, 2013 to September 28, 2014)
- Young Whistler: Early Prints and the "French Set" (August 28, 2004 to March 13, 2005)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Whistler as Artist (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)
- Drawings by James McNeill Whistler (August 1, 1974 to April 14, 1975)
- Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Drawings, Etchings, and Lithographs, 1959 (April 15, 1959 to November 2, 1959)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910)
- H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Date
- 1858
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Watercolor over and under graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 30.4 x 19.7 cm (11 15/16 x 7 3/4 in)
- Type
- Painting
