Object Details
- Provenance
- To 1907
- Obach & Co., London, to 1907 [1]
- From 1907 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1907 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See List of Whistler Purchases Since Making Up the Smithsonian Inventory, pg. 5, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] 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
- Ruffled Feathers: Creating Whistler's Peacock Room (July 13, 2024 to January 21, 2027)
- Chinamania (2016) (July 9, 2016 to June 4, 2017)
- Chinamania (2010) (August 7, 2010 to August 7, 2011)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)
- Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Drawings, Etchings, and Lithographs, 1959 (April 15, 1959 to November 2, 1959)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Obach & Co. (1884-1911) (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
- 1878
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Pencil, ink, and wash on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 22.5 x 17.5 cm (8 7/8 x 6 7/8 in)
- Type
- Drawing
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