Vert et Or: Le Raconteur (Green and Gold: The Storyteller)

Object Details

• Artist

  James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

• Provenance

  To 1905

  Rosalind Birnie-Philip (1873-1958), London, to 1905 [1]

  From 1905 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rosalind Birnie-Philip in 1905 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Whistler List, Paintings, page 15b, 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

  James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) (April 3, 2001 to January 24, 2008)

  American Paintings: James McNeill Whistler (January 17, 1985 to (end date unknown))

  James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and Modern Life (May 11, 1984 to December 16, 1984)

  American Paintings (March 20, 1981 to September 24, 1981)

  American Paintings: James McNeill Whistler (November 11, 1976 to March 18, 1981)

  Portraits and Figure Painting by James McNeill Whistler (October 2, 1972 to May 2, 1973)

  Whistler Paintings (September 8, 1961 to October 15, 1969)

  American Paintings (June 9, 1960 to September 8, 1961)

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 10 and 11 (February 25, 1956 to November 3, 1959)

  American Paintings, J.A.McN. Whistler (May 2, 1923 to February 12, 1944)

  Inaugural Exhibition, The Toledo Museum of Art (January 17 to February 12, 1912)

  Paintings in Oil and Pastel by James A. McNeill Whistler (March 15 to May 31, 1910)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  United States

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1900s, 1880s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Birnie Philip, Rosalind

• Place

  United States

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, American Art, Portraits, Children

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Paintings