James McNeill Whistler
L'Andalouse, Mother-of-Pearl and Silver
c. 1894191.5 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
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
Other works by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Sketch for Rose and Silver: La Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine
1863-64
1863-64
The Little Red Glove
1896/1902
1896/1902
Blue and Silver: Screen, with Old Battersea Bridge
1872/73
1872/73
The Bathing Posts, Brittany
1893
1893
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket
1875
1875