Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.0089
Head of a man in a cloak (Pelouze's Album, p. 79)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1851/1853
Collection: Colby College Museum of Art
Accession Number: 2013.354
Medium: pen, brown, red and blue ink
Support: white wove paper in album
Size: 3 1/4 x 2 3/4" (83 x 70 mm); album 10 x 7 5/8 x 1 1/4" (25.4 x 19.37 x 3.18 cm)
Signature: 'W'
Inscription: 'Whistler' in unknown hand
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Head of a man in a cloak (Pelouze's Album, p. 79)

Conservation History

Head of a man in a cloak, Pelouze's Album, p. 79, Colby College Museum of Art
Head of a man in a cloak, Pelouze's Album, p. 79, Colby College Museum of Art

This is one of several sketches drawn by Whistler in an album for a fellow West Point cadet, Louis Henry Pelouse (1831-1878).

Last updated: 24th February 2021 by Margaret