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

 

M.0998
Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.613
Medium: pen and blue ink
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 6 1/8-6 3/16 x 3 7/16" (155-157 x 87 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate'

Composition

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate', Fogg Art Museum
Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate', Fogg Art Museum
Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

This drawing of Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate [YMSM 315] was made when the oil was shown at The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885. It was made for reproduction in an article by Robert Goodloe Harper Pennington (1854 or 1855-d. 1920). 1

Notes:

1: Pennington 1885 [more] , repr. p. 76.

Last updated: 20th February 2021 by Margaret