Object details
Object number
2.1.r.58
Creator(s)
James McNeill Whistler
(Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - 1903, London, England)
Title
The Gaiety Stage Door
Date
1879
Medium
Lithograph on chine collé
State
I/I
Dimensions
17.8 x 22.2 cm (7 x 8 3/4 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed on stone (recto, left center): Whistler's butterfly signature
Inscribed in graphite (recto, bottom center): The Gaiety Stage Door
Inscribed in graphite (recto, lower left): W10
Inscribed in graphite (recto, lower right): 46
Numbered in graphite (verso, upper left corner): 7-29-03 / 788
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by September 1903.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Thomas Robert Way. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue (London, 1896), p. 13, no. 10.
Thomas Robert Way. Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist (London, 1912), p. 87, ill.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Lithographs by Whistler from the Collection of Thomas R. Way. Exh. cat. (New York: Frederick Keppel & Co., 1914), p. 9, no. 10.
From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World. Exh. cat. (New York: Wildenstein; Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971), p. 49, no. 29, pl. 50.
Mervyn Levy (ed.). Whistler Lithographs: A Catalogue Raisonné (London, 1975), no. 21.
Susan Hobbs. Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C., 1982), pp. 10, 12.
Martha Tedeschi (ed.). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (Chicago, 1998), no. 14.
Martha Tedeschi and Britt Salvesen. Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography. Exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998; Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1999), pp. 47, 50, 43, fig. 45, no. 45.
Gallery
Short Gallery
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