Boutique de Boucher–Saverne
date: label: Date
content: 1858
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Description
content: Shopfront with three figures: a boy looking into the shop while the butcher stands by and a girl sits to one side.
label: Signatures
content: Unsigned.
label: Inscriptions
content: Left edge of page: Boutique de Boucher, Saverne
label: Paper/Support
content: On a smooth surfaced, blue-colored, laid paper with the chain lines running vertically. There are 2.8 cm between chain lines and ten laid lines per cm. There is a partial, upside-down, BLAUW watermark at the right of the bottom edge.
label: Label
content: Even in his late work, Whistler remained true to subjects he had first explored during his travels along the Rhine River decades earlier with works such as Boutique de Boucher-Saverne. Echoing the Rhine watercolor, the London lithograph depicts the picturesque building housing another butcher’s shop and a dog sitting patiently in front of a window filled with succulent joints of meat.
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: Streetscapes, Urban Change (November 18, 2023 to May 4, 2024)
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler in Watercolor (May 18 to November 3, 2019)
label: Exhibition History
content: James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Whistler as Artist (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)
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
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content: brown iron oxide
label: Topic
content: burnt sienna
label: Topic
content: burnt umber
label: Topic
content: organic green pigment
label: Topic
content: iron oxide red
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content: vermilion
label: Topic
content: lead white
label: Topic
content: chrome yellow
label: Topic
content: Mars pigment
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content: indigo
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content: watermark
label: Topic
content: underdrawing
label: Topic
content: commerce
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: store front
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: F1898.156
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Watercolor over and under graphite on blue paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 21.7 x 14.4 cm (8 9/16 x 5 11/16 in)