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

 

YMSM 539
Head of a Child

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1900
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

Head of a Child

Titles

Only one main title has been suggested:

  • 'Head of child (Dublin)' (1901, R. B. Philip). 1
  • 'Head of a Child' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

A portrait head.

Sitter

Unidentified.

Notes:

1: GUL Whistler BP II Ledger c, pp. 5-6.

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 539).

Last updated: 1st November 2019 by Margaret