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

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M.0430
Study of Mrs Leyland

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871/1874
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.157a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 7/16 x 6 3/4-6 7/8' (265 x 171-174 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Study of Mrs Leyland

Composition

Study of Mrs Leyland, Freer Gallery of Art
Study of Mrs Leyland, Freer Gallery of Art
Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, The Frick Collection
Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, The Frick Collection

This is one of the earliest of numerous studies for Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland [YMSM 106]. Galassi comments that at this stage the design was 'classical', with the drapery over the torso 'arranged in loose imitation of a Greek tunic'. 1

Notes:

1: MacDonald 2003 [more] , pp. 105-06, repr. p. 105.

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