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

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M.0329
r.: Draped figure; v.: Indecipherable

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1866/1869
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 40.91.8
Medium: Conté crayon and white chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 15" x 5 7/8" (382 x 150 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none
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r.: Draped figure; v.: Indecipherable

Provenance

  • 1930: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 3 June 1930 (lot 249) bought by Colnaghi's, London art dealers;
  • 1930: sold to Harold K. Hochschild (1892-1981), New York;
  • 1940: given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 1940.

The early history of this drawing is not known.

Exhibitions

None known in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret