Freer Buys Whistler Painting

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Summary

Charles Lang Freer purchases the centerpiece from the Peacock Room, "La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine", by artist James McNeill Whistler. The work is purchased within a month of the artist's death.

Subject

  • Freer, Charles Lang 1854-1919
  • Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903
  • Freer Gallery of Art

Notes

Lawton, Thomas and Linda Merrill. Freer: A Legacy of Art. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993, p. 178.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Date

1903

Topic

  • Acquisitions
  • Art
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Deaths
  • Museums
  • History
  • Museums--Acquisitions
  • Art--History
  • Art objects

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