Reading by Lamplight
date: label: Date
content: 1858
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Provenance
content: To 1906
label: Provenance
content: Obach & Co., London, to 1906 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1906 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1906 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See List of Whistler Purchases Since Making Up the Smithsonian Inventory, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] 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: Sweet Silent Thought: Whistler's Interiors (August 20, 2011 to August 26, 2012)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Obach & Co. (1884-1911) (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: metal
label: Topic
content: copper
label: Topic
content: woman
label: Topic
content: reading
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: lamp
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Google Arts & Culture
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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: F1906.211
objectType: label: Type
content: Tool and Equipment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Steel-faced copper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 16.1 x 12 cm (6 5/16 x 4 3/4 in)