Inscription
lower right reverse: [the artist's butterfly monogram]
Provenance
George John Cavafy, London, c. 1863; by descent 1891 to his son, John Cavafy, London; purchased 1892 by (Edward G. Kennedy, Wunderlich & Co., New York). purchased 1893 by Isaac Cook, Jr., Maine. acquired by (John Levy, New York), by 1918; James Parmelee [d. 1931], Cleveland and Washington; his widow, Alice Maury Parmelee, Washington; bequest 1941 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
Exhibition History
- 1911
- The Home Exhibition: A Collection of Paintings Owned in St. Louis and Lent to the Museum, City Art Museum, St. Louis, 1911, no. 84.
- 1952
- Sea and Shore, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, 1952, no catalogue.
- 1953
- Expatriates: Whistler, Cassatt, Sargent, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1952, no. 9.
- 1959
- American National Exhibition, Sokol'niki Park, Moscow, 1959, not in catalogue.
- 1959
- Loan Exhibition. Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art: A Benefit Exhibition in Honor of the Gallery's Centenary, Wildenstein, New York, 1959, unnumbered catalogue, repro..
- 1966
- Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, unpublished checklist.
- 1968
- James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, Etchings, Lithographs, Art Institute of Chicago; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968, no. 9.
- 1977
- London and the Thames: Paintings of Three Centuries, Department of the Environment at Somerset House, London, 1977, no. 65.
- 1978
- The American Landscape Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, unpublished checklist.
- 1987
- The Image of London: Views by Travellers and Emigrés, 1550-1920, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1987, no. 159.
- 1994
- James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995, no. 36.
- 1994
- James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Wshington, 1994-1995, no. 36.
- 1998
- James McNeill Whistler, Walter Richard Sickert, Salas de Exposiciones de la Fundacion "la Caixa"; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, 1998, no. 1.
- 2003
- The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, unpublished checklist.
- 2005
- Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 33 (not shown in Washington).
- 2005
- Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames 1859-1914, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Florida; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Baltimoe Museum of Art, 2004-2005, no. 46.
- 2008
- The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, unpublished checklist.
- 2009
- American Paintings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 6 June-18 October 2009, unpublished checklist.
- 2013
- American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.
- 2013
- An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013-2014, no. 28.
Bibliography
- 1947
- Corcoran Gallery of Art. Handbook of the American Paintings in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, 1947: 45.
- 1959
- Corcoran Gallery of Art. Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, 1959: 53, repro.
- 1994
- Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. London, 1994: no. 36, repro.
- 2011
- Simpson, Marc. "James McNeil Whistler, Battersea Reach." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 36, 128-129, 202, 265-266, repro.
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