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

 

YMSM 260
Note in Flesh Colour and Grey: Portrait of Miss Dorothy Menpes

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884/1885
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 21.6 x 12.7 cm (8 1/2 x 5")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'My Goddaughter / Dorothy Whistler Menpes.'

Note in Flesh Colour and Grey: Portrait of Miss Dorothy Menpes

Note in Flesh Colour and Grey: Portrait of Miss Dorothy Menpes dates from 1884 or 1885.

Note in Flesh Colour and Grey: Portrait of Miss Dorothy Menpes, Private Collection
Note in Flesh Colour and Grey: Portrait of Miss Dorothy Menpes, Private Collection

She was born on 14 September 1883, and the portrait shows her as a toddler, indicating an age of between one and two years old.

The portrait was exhibited in the Winter Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 231). 1

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 260).

Last updated: 29th April 2021 by Margaret