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

 

M.0434
Study of Rosettes for Lady's Dress

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871/1874
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.628
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 3/16 x 7 1/4" (284-287 x 184 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Tres peu de vert - deux rangs / seulement - le reste jaune- avec un/ petit bouton brun au milieu- / Que le vert dépasse bien le / jaune -' and '10 1/2- 6 3/4' in various hands

Study of Rosettes for Lady's Dress

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 434) as 'Study of Rosettes for Lady's Dress'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 16) as 'Study of Rosettes for Lady's Dress'.

Websites

  • Harvard Art Museums website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org.

Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret