Freer Buys Whistler Painting
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PrintCharles 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.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
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.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1903