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

 

M.0437
Mrs Leyland, standing, holding a book

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871/1874
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1908.196a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/8 x 7 1/16" (282 x 180 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Whistler/ 2 Lindsay Row Houses/ Chelsea - Drawing', probably by Whistler, on backboard

Mrs Leyland, standing, holding a book

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 437) as 'Mrs Leyland, standing, holding a book'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 106).

Books on Whistler

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, p. 106. fig. 99.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 251, pl. 230.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1908.196a-b.

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret