A Little Red Note–Dordrecht
date: label: Date
content: 1884
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Description
content: A view of the river Maas, with a windmill and red roofs in the distance, and a sailboat across the water; unsigned.
label: Signatures
content: Unsigned.
label: Paper/Support
content: On hot-pressed, wove paper mounted overall to a board. A printed label is attached to the verso of the board in the upper left corner and reads "Lechertier, Barbe & Co./60, Regent St."
label: Provenance
content: To 1908
label: Provenance
content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, NY, to 1908 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1908 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1908 [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. 8, Voucher No. 13, March 1908, 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: 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 and the Landscape (May 11, 1984 to February 5, 1985)
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler Pastels and Water Colors (July 1 to July 31, 1974)
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: mounting
label: Topic
content: bone black
label: Topic
content: cerulean blue
label: Topic
content: Prussian blue
label: Topic
content: raw sienna
label: Topic
content: raw umber
label: Topic
content: iron oxide red
label: Topic
content: vermilion
label: Topic
content: zinc white
label: Topic
content: strontium chromate
label: Topic
content: Mars pigment
label: Topic
content: yellow ocher
label: Topic
content: red ocher
label: Topic
content: island
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
label: See more items in
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: F1908.15a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 12.6 x 21.5 cm (4 15/16 x 8 7/16 in)