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

 

M.0714
Sketch of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879
Collection: British Museum, London
Accession Number: 1914,0406.1
Medium: pen, brown ink and wash
Support: cream laid paper laid down on paper
Size: 5 3/4 x 3 7/16" (146 x 87 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 714) as Sketch of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder' ".
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 203).

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, repr. f.p. 259 as 'Study for "Connie Gilchrist" '.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret