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

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M.0090
Two heads (Pelouze's Album, p. 85)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1851/1853
Collection: Colby College Museum of Art
Accession Number: 2013.354
Medium: pencil, pen and brown ink
Support: white wove paper in album
Size: 3 3/16" circle diameter (81 mm circle diameter); album 10 x 7 5/8 x 1 1/4" (25.4 x 19.37 x 3.18 cm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Two heads (Pelouze's Album, p. 85)

Provenance

  • 1851/1853: drawn for Louis Henry Pelouse (1831-1878) ;
  • 1878-after 1995: passed by family descent to his wife, Ellen Letitia Doolittle Pelouze (1836-1916), his son, Louis Henri Pelouze (1863-1939), and his great-nephew.
  • 2013: given by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) to Colby College Museum of Art, Maine.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 88).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 24th February 2021 by Margaret