At Sea, probably 1901

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 15.2 × 9.6 cm (6 × 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 1995, no. 1642

Accession Number

1943.3.8818

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

center right in brown ink: butterfly signature; later hand across bottom verso in graphite: "at Sea" / MS.981. From Canfield Coll. / 500.; upper center verso: 40

Marks and Labels

lower left verso in black ink: LRJ stamp; lower right verso in black ink: NGA/LRJ stamp

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1991: Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. London, 1991: no. 84a.

1995: MacDonald, Margaret F. James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1995, no. 1642.