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

 

M.0438
Mrs Leyland, standing, head turned to the front

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871/1874
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1908.197a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 3/16 x 7 1/8" (282-283 x 179-181 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Mrs Leyland, standing, head turned to the front

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 438) as 'Mrs Leyland, standing, head turned to the front'.
  • 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. 108, repr. p. 108, pl. 101.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 252, pl. 232.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1908.197a-b.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret