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

 

M.0454
r.: Study for 'Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth'; v.: Study for 'Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.211
Medium: r: pastel; v: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 9 x 4 13/16" (228 x 122 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v: '8 7/8 x 4/ R5307/ 101/2/ 32.211' in unknown hands

r.: Study for 'Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth'; v.: Study for 'Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland'

r.: Study for 'Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth'; v.: Study for 'Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland' probably date from 1872.

r.: Study for 'Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth', Art Institute of Chicago
r.: Study for 'Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth', Art Institute of Chicago
v.: Study for 'Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland', Art Institute of Chicago
v.: Study for 'Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland', Art Institute of Chicago

The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 454).

Last updated: 27th April 2021 by Margaret