An open door at the back of a kitchen frames a woman sitting in a garden; signed with the butterfly at left, on tablecloth.
Signatures:
Brown-purple butterfly in lower left near edge
Paper/Support:
On cold-pressed, wove paper. Graphite sight marks in all four corners.
Provenance:
To 1902
Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), London, to 1902 [1]
From 1902 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Henry Studdy Theobald, London, in August 1902 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Whistler List, Purchases from Theobald, pg. 7, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives; and Voucher No. 1, August 1902, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Whistler in Watercolor (May 18 to November 3, 2019)
Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-garde in Victorian London, 1883 (November 20, 2003 to April 4, 2004)
Whistler Pastels and Water Colors (July 1 to July 31, 1974)
Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Paintings and Drawings (December 14, 1955 to February 25, 1956)
Untitled Exhibition, Works of Whistler (September 22, 1947 to April 11, 1955)
Whistler Water Colors (January 7, 1924 to April 4, 1930)
Whistler Pastels and Drawings, Re-arranged and some additions (January 7, 1924 to January 20, 1944)
"Notes"—"Harmonies"—"Nocturnes" (May 1884)
Previous custodian or owner:
Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) (C.L. Freer source)
