James McNeill Whistler

L'Andalouse, Mother-of-Pearl and Silver



James McNeill Whistler - L'Andalouse, Mother-of-Pearl and Silver



James McNeill Whistler
L'Andalouse, Mother-of-Pearl and Silver
c. 1894
191.5 x 90 cm
Oil on canvas
Marked center right with the artist's butterfly mark
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Harris Whittemore Collection


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Andrew McLaren Young, Margaret MacDonald, Robin Spencer, The paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven, 1980, nr. 378 info

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 852


Provenance

Sold 1900/1901 by the artist to Edward G. Kennedy, New York
his firm, H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (later Kennedy Galleries)
sold January 1902 to John Howard Whittemore (died 1910), Naugatuck, Connecticut
probably bequeathed to the J.H. Whittemore Company, Naugatuck, Connecticut, with life interest to his daughter, Miss Gertrude B. Whittemore (died 1941), Naugatuck, Connecticut
gift 1943 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1943.6.1

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