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M.0538
At the piano

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1875
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1927.5886
Medium: chalk
Support: cream laid paper
Size: 6 7/8 x 4 3/8" (175 x 112 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: v.: 'This drawing by J. McN. Whistler was done in chalk as a study for the drypoint "The Piano"/ Ernest G. Brown' in E. G. Brown's hand; stamp 'CD' (Charles Deering)

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Provenance

1910/1918: possibly one of two sketches of 'Miss Greaves' sold by Frida Uhl Strindberg (1872-1943) to William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925) , London art dealer.
1927: bequeathed by Charles Deering (1852-1927) to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Little is known of the provenance; see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 538).

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret

M.0538At the piano

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M.0538
At the piano