James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain



James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain



James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain
1876 revised 1885
215.3 x 108.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Funnd, 1910


Literature


Catalogues raisonnés
Andrew McLaren Young, Margaret MacDonald, Robin Spencer, The paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven, 1980, nr. 187 info

Literature
Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre, Manet/Velazquez, New York, New Haven, 2003, fig. 10.9


Provenance


Charles Augustus Howell, London, 1878–c. 1881
with Henry Graves and Company, London, c. 1881
probably with the artist, 1884–1885
with Henry Graves and Company, London, 1885
Henry Irving, London, by 1897–died 1905
sale, Christie's, London, 16 December 1905, nr. 148
with B.F. Stevens and Brown, London, as agents, 1905
A. Howard Ritter, Philadelphia, 1905–1906
George C. Thomas, Philadelphia, 1906–1909
with Blakeslee Galleries, New York, 1909–1910
with Charles Lang Freer, Detroit, as agent, 1910

External links


Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 10.86

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