1943.178: Violet and Blue: The Little Bathers, Pérosquérie

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.178

People

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)

Title

Violet and Blue: The Little Bathers, Pérosquérie

Other Titles

Former Title: Violet et Bleu: Les Petits Baigneurs, Pérosquérie

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1888

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230033

Location

Location

Level 2, Room 2100, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, Centuries of Tradition, Changing Times: Art for an Uncertain Age

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Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions

12.4 × 21.7 cm (4 7/8 × 8 9/16 in.)
support: 12.7 × 21 cm (5 × 8 1/4 in.)
framed: 28.6 x 37.8 x 4.5 cm (11 1/4 x 14 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: Butterfly monogram
• label: Label on back of panel, typed, part torn off: PALAIS DE L'ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS. / EXPOSITION DES ŒUVRES DE / JAMES McNEILL WHISTL [cut off] / Paris, Mai, 1905. / Description [handwritten:] Violet et [cut off] / les petits Baig[cut off] / Prêté par [handwritten:] d [cut off] / 17 Sav Raille sts. Londres
• stamp: verso of frame, impressed: M. Grieve Co. / Hand-Carved / New York and London
• inscription: verso of panel, graphite: 13

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Possible sale by the artist [through D.C. Thomson of Goupil, London]. A. Arnold Hannay, by 1902. William Marchant, by 1921. [Scott and Fowles, New York], sold; to Hunt Henderson, 1922, bequest; to Tulane University, 1929, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1941, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.178

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study with a Tentative List of the Artist's Work, Moffat, Yard and Company (New York, 1907), no. 219, p. 192
• Bernhard Sickert, Whistler, Duckworth & Co. (London, England, 1908), no. 151, p. 171
• Andrew McLaren Young and Margaret F. MacDonald, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1980), vol. I, p. 171, no. 382, and reproduced in vol. II pl. 227, color
• Robin Spencer, ed., Whistler: A Retrospective, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (New York, NY, 1989), reproduced in color pl. 93, p. 228
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 428-29, cat. no. 456, reproduced in b&w, p. 429

Exhibition History

• L'Oeuvre de James McNeill Whistler, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 05/01/1905 - 06/30/1905
• For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
• 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/24/2023 - 11/04/2024

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