Peach Blossom

c. 1890-1894

Beatrice Godwin Whistler

Painter, British, 1857 - 1896

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on wood

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 23.7 × 13.8 cm (9 5/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
    framed: 46.99 × 38.1 × 6.35 cm (18 1/2 × 15 × 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.11.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably given or bequeathed by the artist to William Webb (of James McNeill Whistler's firm of lawyers.)[1] (Forbes and Paterson), London; sold 1930 through (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia) to Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia;[2] gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] Andrew McLaren Young to William P. Campbell, 4 January 1973, in NGA curatorial files. Webb certainly owned the picture by 1904, when he exhibited it at the Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Hall, Boston, no. 76.
[2] Rosenwald purchased the picture with a certificate from Sickert (MS notebook of Rosenwald's purchases of Whistler prints, 7, in NGA archives). Dr. Margaret MacDonald supplied this reference.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1904

  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Hall, Boston, 1904, no. 76.

1931

  • Etchings, lithographs, original drawings, and autograph letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903: lent by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Esq, Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931, unnumbered and unillustrated leaflet.

Bibliography

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 122, repro., as by James McNeill Whistler.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 376, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 310, as by Beatrix Godwin Whistler.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 437, repro.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 326-329, repro. 327.

Wikidata ID

Q20190215

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