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

 

M.0518
Elinor Leyland

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1873
Collection: Courtauld Institute, London
Accession Number: D.1967.WS.99
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 15/16 x 7 1/8" (278 x 181 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Elinor Leyland/ (Daughter of F. R. Leyland)/ by J. McNeill Whistler, 1873/ (from the collection of Miss R. Birnie Philip/ the artist's sister-in-law/ & Executive.' in an unknown hand

Elinor Leyland

Composition

Elinor Leyland, Courtauld Institute
Elinor Leyland, Courtauld Institute

This is probably a study for the The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland [YMSM 111].

Technique

According to the Courtauld website, 'Chalk (black with white, applied moist as bodycolour) on paper (grey-buff wove, pierced with pin holes)'. 1

Notes:

1: Courtauld Institute of Art, A&A website.

Last updated: 15th February 2021 by Margaret