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

 

M.1581
Sketch of the Peacock Room

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 17 December 1898
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1927.5883
Medium: graphite pencil
Support: cream wove paper, printed ‘THE RESTAURANT FRASCATI / (WITH SPECIAL MUSICAL PROGRAMMES). / WILL BE OPEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY / FROM 6 p.m., AND ALL DAY ON THE /BANK HOLIDAY.’, also translated into French and German
Size: 187 x 178 mm (7 3/8 x 7")
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: ‘Whistler’s sketch of the Peacock Room – to give me an idea of it – done at Fracato’s [sic], 17th–Dec–1898 – A. Ludovici’ by A. Ludovici; v.: inscribed in unknown hands, 'No.123 of London Catalogue - page 122 - Lent by the artist Ludovici - (1898)/ £110.' and 'a50081// 27.5883// R.10445// FH0'; collector's stamp 'CD' (Charles Deering)

Sketch of the Peacock Room

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1581) as 'Sketch of the Peacock Room'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (Peacock Room, cat. no. 178).

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 123).

Monographs

  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 297-98.

Websites

  • Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 48).

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret