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

 

M.0715
Sketch after the portrait of Rosa Corder

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.295
Medium: pen, brown ink and wash
Support: off-white laid paper, watermark 'DY/ PE'; v.: embossed heading 'ARTS CLUB/ HANOVER SQUARE/ W.'
Size: 7 1/16 x 4 7/16" (179 x 113 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'A mon Eleve Pellegrini -' ; v.: 'Dear Mr Williams -'; stamped 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster)

Sketch after the portrait of Rosa Corder

Composition

Sketch after the portrait of Rosa Corder, Art Institute of Chicago
Sketch after the portrait of Rosa Corder, Art Institute of Chicago
Arrangement in Brown and Black: Miss Rosa Corder, The Frick Collection
Arrangement in Brown and Black: Miss Rosa Corder, The Frick Collection

This is a drawing of Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder [YMSM 203].

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 715), and Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 20).

Last updated: 10th December 2020 by Margaret