The Kitchen
date: label: Date
content: 1858
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Description
content: Kitchen interior with female figure standing before a window, framed by a doorway.
label: Signatures
content: Unsigned.
label: Paper/Support
content: On antique laid paper with vertical chain lines. There are 2.5 cm between chain lines and ten laid lines per cm. An upside-down watermark appears to the left of center featuring leaves that form an oval wreath around a shield with the initials LL inside.
label: Provenance
content: Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London [1]
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1898 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co., through Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), in November 1898 [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Haden Collection Drawings, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See Voucher No. 20, November 1898, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 2.
label: Provenance
content: [4] 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.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler in Watercolor (May 18 to November 3, 2019)
label: Exhibition History
content: Off the Beaten Path: Early Works by James McNeill Whistler (September 28, 2013 to September 28, 2014)
label: Exhibition History
content: Young Whistler: Early Prints and the "French Set" (August 28, 2004 to March 13, 2005)
label: Exhibition History
content: James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Whistler as Artist (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)
label: Exhibition History
content: Drawings by James McNeill Whistler (August 1, 1974 to April 14, 1975)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Drawings, Etchings, and Lithographs, 1959 (April 15, 1959 to November 2, 1959)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: bone black
label: Topic
content: cobalt blue
label: Topic
content: Prussian blue
label: Topic
content: burnt sienna
label: Topic
content: raw sienna
label: Topic
content: burnt umber
label: Topic
content: iron oxide red
label: Topic
content: vermilion
label: Topic
content: lead white
label: Topic
content: chrome yellow
label: Topic
content: Mars pigment
label: Topic
content: yellow ocher
label: Topic
content: watermark
label: Topic
content: underdrawing
label: Topic
content: woman
label: Topic
content: cooking
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: Whistler in Watercolor
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1898.153
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Watercolor over and under graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 31.5 x 22.3 cm (12 3/8 x 8 3/4 in)