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

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M.0447
r.: Model with a Fan; v.: Draped woman with a fan

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872/1875
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1940:91.6
Medium: Conté crayon and chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/4 x 7 1/8" (286 x 182 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: v: 'HM' (stamp of Howard Mansfield)

r.: Model with a Fan; v.: Draped woman with a fan

Provenance

  • By 1904: owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938) , New York.
  • 1931: bought from Harlow, New York dealer, by Harold K. Hochschild (1892-1981) on 12 August;
  • 1940: given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 1940.

See details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 447).

Exhibitions

  • 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 178) as 'Model with a Fan'.

Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret