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

 

M.0677
Two sketches

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878/1879
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 2004.674
Medium: lithographic crayon and brush and tusche
Support: coarse-grained lithographic transfer paper
Size: 10 1/4 x 7" (262 x 179 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Two sketches

Sitter

Two sketches, Art Institute of Chicago
Two sketches, Art Institute of Chicago

The man may be Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890) , and the woman, possibly Maud Franklin (1857-ca 1941) , although the face looks a little too chubby and the chin too pointed for Franklin, who was Whistler's chief model by this date.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret