Several figures scattered along a broad beach; the sea in the distance; unsigned.
Signatures:
Unsigned.
Paper/Support:
On cold-pressed, wove paper mounted overall to board. The paper support is mounted on top of a manufactured board that already had a facing paper.
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 in 1902 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Whistler List, Purchases from Thoebald, pg. 8, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, 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)
Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Watercolors, Oil Paintings, and Pastels (January 20, 1944 to October 13, 1947)
Whistler Pastels and Drawings, Re-arranged and some additions (January 7, 1924 to January 20, 1944)
Whistler Water Colors (January 7, 1924 to April 4, 1930)
American Paintings, Pastels, and Water Colors, and Drawings. J.A.McN. Whistler (May 2, 1923 to January 7, 1924)
Exposition des Oeuvres de James McNeill Whistler (May 1905)
"Notes"—"Harmonies"—"Nocturnes" (May 1884)
Previous custodian or owner:
Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934) (C.L. Freer source)
