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

 

YMSM 502
Grey and Silver: La Petite Souris

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1897/1898
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46326
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 50.7 x 31.0 cm (20 x 12 1/4")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
Frame: Grau-style, 1890s

Grey and Silver: La Petite Souris

Grey and Silver: La Petite Souris dates from between 1897 and 1898. 1

The model, Muriel Smith (fl. 1880-1910), was posing to Whistler in the autumn of 1897. 2 Whistler was prepared to sell this painting in 1898. 3 It was first exhibited at the Exhibition of International Art, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Knightsbridge, London, 1898 (cat. no. 176).

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 502).

2: Whistler to R. Birnie Philip, [11 August 1897], GUW #04716. See Blue and Coral: The Little Blue Bonnet [YMSM 500].

3: Whistler to Christine Anderson, [August/September 1898], GUW #00792.

Last updated: 24th March 2021 by Margaret