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

 

M.0518
Elinor Leyland

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1873
Collection: Courtauld Institute, London
Accession Number: D.1967.WS.99
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 15/16 x 7 1/8" (278 x 181 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Elinor Leyland/ (Daughter of F. R. Leyland)/ by J. McNeill Whistler, 1873/ (from the collection of Miss R. Birnie Philip/ the artist's sister-in-law/ & Executive.' in an unknown hand

Elinor Leyland

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 518) as 'Elinor Leyland'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 111).

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 7) as 'Head'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • The Courtauld’s IMAF Centre for the Study and Conservation of Drawings, Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Institute, London, 2011, see website.

Websites

  • Courtauld Institute of Art, A&A website at http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk.

Last updated: 15th February 2021 by Margaret