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

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M.1665
A woman standing, carrying a child, Ajaccio

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: Whereabouts unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil
Support: paper
Size: 71 x 56 mm (2 13/16 x 2 3/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
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A woman standing, carrying a child, Ajaccio

Provenance

  • 1903: in the artist's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
  • 1956: bought by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd, London art dealers, 11 May 1956;
  • 1957: bought on 5 November by Alister Mathews (1907-1985), art dealer, Bournemouth;
  • 1958: sold on 20 February to Hyman Swetzoff (d. 1968), Swetzoff Gallery, Boston.

The Swetzoff Gallery records are in the Archives of American Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1662).

Exhibitions

None in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 5th March 2021 by Margaret