Green and Silver–Beaulieu, Touraine

Object Details

• Artist

  James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

• Description

  A green meadow, with a house and trees in the distance; a child stands in the foreground, with another figure beyond. Signed with the butterfly at lower left.

• Signatures

  Red butterfly in lower left corner

• Inscriptions

  Verso: 'Green & Silver' / Beaulieu, Touraine

• Paper/Support

  On a manufactured, rough-weave, fabric support with a white lead ground layer mounted to board. There is a manufacturer's stamp in blue ink reading "E. Mary & Fils/26, Rue Chaptal, Paris" on the verso of the board.

• Provenance

  1899

  Goupil et Cie, London 1899 [1]

  From 1899 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Goupil et Cie, London in 1899 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note, Object file. Also see Original Whistler List, Paintings, pg. 17, 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

  Whistler in Watercolor (May 18 to November 3, 2019)

  James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and the Landscape (May 11, 1984 to February 5, 1985)

  Whistler Water Colors (January 7, 1924 to April 4, 1930)

  Panama-Pacific International Exposition (February 20 to December 4, 1915)

  Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler (February 23 to March 22, 1904)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Goupil et Cie (1829-1919) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  United States

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

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• Date

  1880s

• Name

  Goupil et Cie, Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  United States

• Topic

  Lead white, Art, Iron oxide red, Bone black, Cerulean blue, Viridian, Burnt umber, Vermilion, Mounting, Yellow ocher, Charles Lang Freer collection, Mars pigment, American Art, Raw sienna, Chrome yellow, Prussian blue, Children, Indigo, Raw umber, Dwellings, Burnt sienna

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Paintings