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

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M.1672
Two women and a child

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1993.68
Medium: pencil, pen, brown ink and wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 118 x 78 mm (4 5/8 x 3 1/16")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
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Two women and a child

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 on 11 May by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd, London art dealers;
  • 1957: sold in July to Philip Hofer, Boston, MA.
  • From 1984: on loan to the Fogg Art Museum;
  • 1989: bequeathed by Aimée Lamb (1893-1989) and Rosamond Lamb (1898-1989) to the Fogg Art Museum, and accessioned by the museum in 1993.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1672).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret