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

 

YMSM 544
A Corsican Child

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46374
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 51.8 x 31.5 cm (20 3/8 x 12 3/8")
Signature: none
Inscription: none
Frame: Whistlerian Flat, 1920s

A Corsican Child

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler’s studio at his death and bequeathed to his ward and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1958: bequeathed by her to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

  • It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 22nd October 2020 by Margaret