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

 

M.0469
Study for 'Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872/1874
Collection: Manchester Art Gallery
Accession Number: 1925.138
Medium: chalk, pastel and gouache
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 212 x 117 mm (8 3/8 x 4 5/82")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Study for 'Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour'

Provenance

  • 1901: bought from the Carfax Gallery, London, by Charles Lambert Rutherston (1866-1927);
  • 1925: given to Manchester Art Gallery.

It did not, as the Pennells thought, belong to Thomas Way (1837-1915). 1

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 469).

Exhibitions

  • 1904: City of Bradford Exhibition, Bradford, 1904 (cat. no. 467) as 'Study for the unfinished picture "The White Girl" '.
  • 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 178) as 'Lady with a Fan.'

Notes:

1: Pennell 1921C [more] , repr. f. p. 134.

Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret