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

 

M.0374
r.: Harmony in Gold and Brown; v.: Draped figure

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1870/1873
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 5 1/8 x 10" (130 x 254 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Harmony in Gold & Brown/ Pastel by Whistler/ Selected from several Pastels at the White House./ Whistler gave me my choice from a lot he had in his Studio & I brought this away with me./ P. R. W.' by Pickford Waller

r.: Harmony in Gold and Brown; v.: Draped figure

Composition

r.: Harmony in Gold and Brown, Private Collection
r.: Harmony in Gold and Brown, Private Collection

It may have been exhibited as 'Design for Picture, "Variations in Yellow and Brown" ' though no such painting has been located. 1

v.: Draped figure, Private Collection
v.: Draped figure, Private Collection
Tanagra, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College
Tanagra, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College

The draped figure on the verso may be a study for Tanagra [YMSM 092].

Notes:

1: Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 23).

Last updated: 31st May 2021 by Margaret