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

 

M.1546
Portrait of Miss Emily Tuckerman

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1925.1a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown paper, laid down on board
Size: 9 1/8 x 6 3/4-6 7/8" (232 x 172-174 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Portrait of Miss Emily Tuckerman

Provenance

  • 1898: sent by Whistler to Emily Tuckerman (1853-1924) ;
  • 1924: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art;
  • 1925: given by Miss Tuckerman's niece Dorothy, Mrs George Draper (1889-1969), through Charles Adams Platt, to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1546a).

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret