Yellow House, Lannion

1893

James Abbott McNeill Whistler American, 1834 - 1903

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About the Artwork

Title Yellow House, Lannion

Artwork Date 1893

Artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Life Dates 1834 - 1903

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium 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

Dimensions 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) Framed: 21 × 16 1/4 × 1 inches (53.3 × 41.3 × 2.5 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

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

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2015.269

Markings

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

Inscriptions 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]

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

Provenance

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)

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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.

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