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

 

M.0429
Mrs Leyland seated

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871/1873
Collection: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Accession Number: 06.12.6
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 3/8 x 7 5/16" (289 x 186 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: '10 3/4 x 6' in unknown hand

Mrs Leyland seated

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 429) as 'Mrs Leyland seated'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Etchings, Dry-Points, and a Few Drawings by Whistler, Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, 1904 (cat. no. 108) as 'Sketch of a Gown.'

Books on Whistler

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, repr. pl. 103.

Websites

  • Carnegie Museum of Art website at https://collection.cmoa.org.

Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret