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

 

M.1524
The Captive

Artist: J. McN. Whistler, with additions by an unknown hand
Date: 1898
Collection: Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Accession Number: 74.60
Medium: pastel and pencil
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 7/8 x 7" (276 x 178 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

The Captive

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1524) as 'The Captive'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 3rd Exhibition, Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Galleries of the Royal Institute, London, 1901 (cat. no. 39) as 'The Captive'.
  • Exposition Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Galeries George Petit, Paris, 1901.
  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 119) as 'The Captive'.

Websites

  • Eskenazi Museum of Art Provenance Project website at https://artmuseum.indiana.edu.

Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret