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

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M.0442
Head of a woman

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.605
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 1/8 x 7 3/16" (258 x 183-186 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Whis 232' and '17' in unknown hands
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Head of a woman

Provenance

  • Before 1939: owned by Hunt Henderson (1869-1939), New Orleans;
  • 1939: bequeathed to Tulane University, New Orleans, 1939;
  • 1941: sold in April with 20 other works, through the Macdonald Gallery, New York, to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943);
  • 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 442).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret