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

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M.0530
Sketch of a girl (Miss Florence Leyland)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1873/1875
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Accession Number: 51.652
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/8 x 7 1/8" (282 x 181 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: stamp 'HM' (Howard Mansfield)

Sketch of a girl (Miss Florence Leyland)

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 530) as 'Sketch of a girl (Miss Florence Leyland)'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

EXHIBITIONS:

  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 184) as 'Sketch of a Girl'.

SALES:

  • Possibly Christie's, London, 28 May 1892 (lot 2 or 4).

Books on Whistler

  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907 (cat. no. 181).

Last updated: 15th February 2021 by Margaret