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

 

M.0688
r.: Studies for a portrait; v.: Study of crouching figure

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 x 7 1/4" (279 x 184 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

r.: Studies for a portrait; v.: Study of crouching figure

r.: Studies for a portrait; v.: Study of crouching figure date from about 1878.

r.: Studies for a portrait, private collection
r.: Studies for a portrait, private collection

The drawings are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 688). Several details of size and history have now been revised. However, it is not, as stated in Sotheby's sale catalogue of 5 December 2015 (lot 248) signed with a butterfly.

Last updated: 28th May 2021 by Margaret