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

Composition

Study of Rosettes for Lady's Dress, Fogg Art Museum
Study of Rosettes for Lady's Dress, Fogg Art Museum
Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, The Frick Collection
Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, The Frick Collection

This is probably a study for rosettes on the dress in Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland [YMSM 106]. The instructions are in French, as they are on another drawing Rosettes [M.0435].

Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret