Object Details
- Description
- Drawing of a street fruit-seller, customer and two dogs.
- Signatures
- Signed with the Butterfly on the drawing and with the Butterfly in pencil on the print.
- Edition/State
- One impression.
- Label
- The rue de Grenelle crosses the rue du Bac two blocks from the Whistlers' home, so this green-grocer's shop was probably within easy walking distance. As in his etching Rue de la Rochefoucault (F1902.136), Whistler is centrally concerned with capturing the play of light against a complex surface, exploring how it illuminates the well-dressed customer in the center foreground, reflects off the large plateglass window to the left, and sets off the shadows of the shop interior.
- Provenance
- From at least 1906 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), from at least 1906 [1]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Whistler List, Lithographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Also, according to Curatorial Remark 2, G.D.G., 1921, in the object record: "No record existing of the time of purchase, the print was given a registration number for 1906, the year of the printed Inventory."
- [2] 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: Streetscapes, Urban Change (November 18, 2023 to May 4, 2024)
- Whistler in Paris: Lithographs from the Belle Epoque, 1891-1896 (February 21 to August 15, 2004)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Date
- 1894
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 22.9 x 15.5 cm (9 x 6 1/8 in)
- Type
