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

 

M.0682
Portrait of the Artist

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1899.26a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown paper laid down on card
Size: 6 5/16 x 4 3/4-4 13/16" (160 x 120-122 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Portrait of the Artist

Provenance

  • By 1898: owned by Goupil's, London art dealers;
  • 1899: sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit;
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 682).

Exhibitions

  • 1898: Pictures, Drawings, Bronzes, Pottery, Antique Furniture, Decorative Metal Work, &c, Goupil Gallery, at Howard Gallery, Sheffield, 1898 (cat. no. 58) as 'Portrait of the Artist'.

Due to the terms of Freer's will, the drawing can not be lent to another venue.

Last updated: 3rd June 2021 by Margaret