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

 

M.0505
Study for the portrait of Miss Cicely Alexander

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872
Collection: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Accession Number: 2015
Medium: pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 5 1/8 x 3 7/8" (130 x 98 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Study for the portrait of Miss Cicely Alexander

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 505) as 'Study for the portrait of Miss Cicely Alexander'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 129).

Websites

  • Hale, Felix, 'Whistler's Women to join Fitzwilliam Museum Collection', Sotheby's, 11 December 2016, Blog, repr.
  • 'Whistler Studies Allocated to the Fitzwilliam', Fitzwilliam Museum 2016, website.
  • 'The Study for a Masterpiece on Display after 100 years', press release, 12 December 2016, Fitzwilliam Museum, Website, repr.
  • Fitzwilliam Museum website.

Other

  • Whistler Society, Newsletter, London, December 2016.

Last updated: 22nd May 2021 by Margaret