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

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M.0360
Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1869/1872
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46028
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white laid paper
Size: 7 x 2 1/8" (177 x 54 mm)
Signature: 'Whistler'
Inscription: 'Horace / [Sauces] Ivory / For a drawing ... [illegible] / [If] I will if you will / Well good night / She sighed then sighed again / He's a damned liar' in various hands including those of Whistler and Walter Greaves

Studies of a man's head and a crouching woman

Provenance

  • 1869/1873: possibly kept by Walter Greaves (1846-1930), and given much later to William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925) ;
  • 1925: bequeathed to his widow, Cicely Gertrude Marchant (ca 1881-1955);
  • 1955: passed to their descendants including their daughter Marjorie G. J. Marchant, Mrs Frederick (Tommy) Thompson (1906-1979);
  • 1983: given to the University of Glasgow.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 360); this record has been corrected.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret