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

 

r.: Studies for a portrait; v.: Study of crouching figure

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 688) as 'r: Studies for a portrait, v: Study of crouching figure'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • New York, Kennedy Galleries, Dürer, Rembrandt, Whistler, February 1977 (cat. no. 92).
  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Notes, Harmonies, and Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1984 (cat. no. 33, repr.), as 'Studies for a Portrait of Mrs. F.R. Leyland (recto) Study of Crouching Figure for “The Three Girls” (verso)'.

SALE:

  • Sotheby's, London, 23 April 1969 (lot 4) as 'Studies for a Portrait of Mrs Leyland'.
  • Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 2015 (lot 2488, repr.) as 'Studies for a portrait (recto) and study of crouching figure (verso)'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Burlington Magazine, April 1969, vol. 111, p. xxiii, repr.

Websites

Last updated: 28th May 2021 by Margaret