At Sea

probably 1901

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 15.2 × 9.6 cm (6 × 3 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8818

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 1995, no. 1642

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Markings

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

Watermarks

C.S.S.A (partial)

Wikidata ID

Q64580661

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