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

 

M.0455
Study for 'Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Accession Number: WA1941.56
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down
Size: 10 5/16 x 6 7/16" (262 x 164 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Study for 'Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth'

Provenance

  • 1872: probably given to the sitter, Helen Rose Huth (1837-1924), later Mrs A. B. How;
  • 1924: bequeathed to her husband, Archibald Barwell How (1860-1947), of Exeter College, Oxford;
  • 1941: presented by A. B. How to the Ashmolean Museum.

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 27th April 2021 by Margaret