Corte del Paradiso

Provenance

Cyril Flower (1843-1907), the first Lord Battersea. from 1881. John H. Wrenn (1840-1911), Chicago; by descent to Harold Brent Wrenn (1878-1938); by descent to John Henry Wrenn (1913-1981); to his wife, Mrs. J.H. Wrenn, to 1981 [all provenance is MacDonald 1995]; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, December 2, 1982, lot 10, to The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Ala., to at least 1994 [MacDonald 1995]. Sold, Christie's, New York, May 26, 1999. Sold by Fine Art Society, London, to the Art Institute, 2002.

Corte del Paradiso

James McNeill Whistler

1880

Accession Number

158382

Medium

Pastel and black chalk on brown wove paper with fibrous inclusions

Dimensions

30.1 × 14.9 cm (11 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.)

Classification

pastel

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Walter Aitken, Margaret Day Blake, Harold Joachim Memorial, Celia and David Hilliard, Julius Lewis, and Sara R. Shorey endowments; Sandra L. Grung Fund; purchased with funds provided by William Vance and Pamela Kelley Armour; through prior acquisitions of Katherine Kuh