Titles

One title is suggested:

• 'Portrait of Mrs Waldo Story' (1980, YMSM). 1

Description

Jacques Émile Blanche (1861-1942) originally described it as 'Mrs Waldo Story, en rouge', but in 1919 he grouped it with 'certains portraits de la série des "arrangement en noir et en brun", comme ... Mrs Waldo Story.' 2

Sitter

Ada Maud Broadwood (Mrs Waldo Story) (1856-1932).

Ada M. Broadwood, daughter of an Englishman, T. Capel Broadwood, and granddaughter of Alfred Hennin, the New Orleans jurist, married a close friend of Whistler, the American sculptor, Thomas Waldo Story (1855-1915) in Rome in 1883. In that year, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) painted Mrs Waldo Story (private collection), a fine three-quarter-length portrait of her in a black evening dress. 3