System Number: 13803
Date: [April/May 1899][1]
Author: Charles Lang Freer[2]
Place: Venice
Recipient: [none]
Repository: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Call Number: FGA Whistler 279/4
Credit Line: Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of the Estate of Charles Lang Freer
Document Type: AD[3]
"The Boy in the cloak"[4]
Standing figure
Back ground scrubbed by Mr W[5].
"The Little green cap"[6] Superb[7]
Little girl with perfectly painted small face and red hair
"Le Raconteur"[8]
The boy with mischievous face - hand and thumb
Brother of the boy with cloak[9]
"Comment tu t'appelle"[10]
The marvellous little girl full face - eyes looking into futurity - her two little hands folded and at rest in her lap -
Sister of the boy in cloak and of the Raconteur[11]
Asked to be held for C L F
Mr George Vanderbilt[12] to have the little boy with fine eyes . brother [illegible] of [p. 2] the Raconteur - And the same boy painted in the "Boy in the cloak"
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Notes:
1. [April/May 1899]
Dated from Freer's Diaries (see also #11696).
2. Charles Lang Freer
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), industrialist, collector and founder of the Freer Gallery of Art [more].
3. AD
This is from Freer's Diaries, Book 13, FGA.
4. The Boy in the cloak
The Boy in a Cloak (YMSM 512).
5. Mr. W
JW. Line written on the right, at right angles to the main text.
6. The Little green cap
Green and Gold: The Little Green Cap (YMSM 467) was bought by Freer from Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), JW's sister-in-law [more], in 1907; there had apparently been some understanding that these pictures would be offered to Freer.
7. Superb
Double underlined.
8. Le Raconteur
Vert et or: Le Raconteur (YMSM 513), which was bought by Freer from R. B. Philip in 1905.
9. cloak
Line written on the right, at right angles to the main text.
10. Comment tu t'appelle
The Little Faustina (YMSM 510), which was bought by Freer from R. B. Philip in 1909.
11. Raconeteur
Line written on the right, at right angles to the main text.
12. Mr George Vanderbilt
George Washington Vanderbilt (1862-1914), collector [more].