15 JAMES A. M.WHISTLER
Maison, Rue Orbe, Rouen
.
Pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1857-58. 188x105 mm; 7
1
/
2
x4
1
/
4
inches. Signed and
titled in pencil, lower left and lower right, respectively. Ex-collection Mrs. Charles Thynne,
the artist’s niece, received directly from the artist; private collection, Paris, sold Christie’s,
London, December 19, 1972, lot 89; private collection, NewYork.
Exhibited, “Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late James McNeill Whistler, First
President of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers,” February 22-
April 15, 1905, New Gallery, London; and “Works on Paper,” November 20, 2008-January
3, 2009, Spanierman Gallery, NewYork, pages 14-15, number 5 (illustrated).
Published in MacDonald,
James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors: A
Catalogue Raisonné
, New Haven, 1995, pages 68-69, number 224 (illustrated).
Drawn during Whistler’s sketching tour of Northern France and the Rhine Valley, with
fellow artist, Ernest Delannoy, during which he compiled numerous studies drawn directly
from nature which would be used for his
Douze Eaux-Fortes d’après Nature (Twelve Etchings
from Nature)
, also known as the
French Set
, his first collected series of etchings printed in
Paris and London in 1858.
[7,000/10,000]
