Yellow House, Lannion, 1893

  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903

Transfer lithograph with scraping, drawn on fine-grained transfer paper (keystone) and thin, transparent transfer paper (color stones). ink colors: black or dark gray (keystone), green, yellows, gray

  • Image: 9 5/8 × 5 3/4 inches (24.4 × 14.6 cm) Overall (with mat): 19 7/8 × 15 × 1/8 inches (50.5 × 38.1 × 0.3 cm)
  • 21 × 16 1/4 × 1 inches (53.3 × 41.3 × 2.5 cm)

Museum Purchase, FPDP Purchase Fund and Alan, Marianne and Marc Schwartz Fund in honor of the FPDP 50th Anniversary.

2015.269

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, on stone, center right: [Whistler's butterfly device] Signed, in graphite, lower rigth: [Whistler's butterfly device]

Stamp, in black, verso: [pentagon] [Albert W. Scholle, Lugt 2923a] Stamp, in black, verso, center of sheet: [CCC trefoil] [Charles C. Cunningham, Lugt 4684]

inscribed, in graphite, lower right corner: B6622 (dealer inventory number) Inscribed, in graphite, lower right corner: W.101 Inscribed, in graphite, verso, lower left corner: a24472 (dealer inventory number) Inscribed, in graphite, verso, several letters which may E R M, which is probably the mark for Emma Regina [Rehberg] Martin [1876-1965], (not in Lugt) Inscribed, in graphite, verso, lower right: 170 [within circle]

Albert W. Scholle [1860-1917] ((New York, New York, USA). Probably, Emma Regina [Rehberg] Martin [1876-1965] (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) (not in Lugt). Charles C. Cunningham [b. 1934] (New England, USA). April 29, 2015, sold by (Swann Galleries, New York, New York, USA), auction, lot 315

2015-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Yellow House, Lannion, 1893, Transfer lithograph with scraping, drawn on fine-grained transfer paper (keystone) and thin, transparent transfer paper (color stones). Ink colors: black or dark gray (keystone), green, yellows, gray. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, FPDP Purchase Fund and Alan, Marianne and Marc Schwartz Fund in honor of the FPDP 50th Anniversary., 2015.269.