The Two Doorways, 1879 - 1880

  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903

Etching and drypoint in dark brwn ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 7 7/8 × 11 5/8 inches (20 × 29.5 cm) Sheet: 8 3/16 × 11 5/8 inches (20.8 × 29.5 cm)

Museum Purchase, funds from Nena Cunningham Dahling in honor of Mary M. Roby

2019.101

Signed, in plate, upper left, with Whistler's butterfly monogram; signed, in graphite, below the plate line, lower left, with Whistler's butterfly monogram, followed by the abbreviation "imp."

Stamped, verso, BM, for Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924] (Glasgow, Scotland) (Lugt 394) Stamped, verso, HW, for Harris Whittemore [1862-1927] (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA) Lugt 1384a)

Inscribed, in pencil, verso, in Whistler's hand: Whistler's own, to be returned; Inscribed, in pencil, verso, in an unknown hand, H L Q, the initials of the Brooklyn, New York, collector Henry L. Quick (ca. 1850-1916)

Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924] (Glasgow, Scotland) (Lugt 394). by 1902, (H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, New York, USA). by 1910, Henry L. Quick [ca. 1805-1916] (Brooklyn, New York, USA). (A. A. Hahlo and Co., New York, New York, USA). Harris Whittemore, Sr. [1864-1927] (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA) (Lugt 1384a)

by descent, Harris Whittemore, Jr. [1894-1974] and Roberta Napier Whittemore [1897-1994] (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA) by descent, Robert Napier Whittemore [1921-2010] (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA) by descent, Thyrza S. Whittemore [b. 1951] (Middlebury, Connecticut, USA) consigned to (Susan Schulman Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York, USA)

2019-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Two Doorways, 1879 - 1880, etching and drypoint in dark brwn ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, funds from Nena Cunningham Dahling in honor of Mary M. Roby, 2019.101.