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

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M.0713
Study of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Miss Rosa Corder'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879
Collection: Lucas Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art
Accession Number: BMA L33.53.18113
Medium: pencil
Support: pale blue squared wove paper
Size: 8 1/4 x 5 5/16" (210 x 135 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none
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Study of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Miss Rosa Corder'

Provenance

  • ca 1879: probably given by Whistler to Alan Summerly Cole (1846-1934), London;
  • 1891: on 9 June Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), New York dealer, brought 11 drawings, probably including this, to Paris for Whistler to sign; 1
  • Date unknown: acquired by George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909), Baltimore;
  • 1909: bequeathed to Baltimore Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Notes:

1: Kennedy to Whistler, June 1891, GUW #07192.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret