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

 

M.0460
Japanese lady decorating a fan

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Accession Number: 1933.222.a
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 3/4 x 6 3/4" (274 x 172 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Japanese lady decorating a fan

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 460) as 'Japanese lady decorating a fan'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 15) as 'Design for Mosaic'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016-2017.

Websites

  • Cleveland Museum of Art website at https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1933.222, as 'Japanese Woman Painting a Fan (recto); Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)'.

Last updated: 23rd February 2021 by Margaret