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

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Head of a woman

Provenance

  • Before 1939: owned by Hunt Henderson (1869-1939) , New Orleans;
  • 1939: bequeathed to Tulane University, New Orleans, 1939;
  • 1941: sold in April with 20 other works, through the Macdonald Gallery, New York, to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943) ;
  • 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 442).

Exhibitions

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

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret