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

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M.0717
Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1921.124
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: cream pseudo-laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper
Size: 7 1/16 x 4 7/16" (180 x 113 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Miss Eleanor (sic) Leyland. "Babs". original sketch for a picture never completed, and destroyed by Whistler in the early part of 1879.' written by C. A. Howell on support paper

Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 717) as 'Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 111).

Websites

  • Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 21) as 'Study for “The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland” '.

Last updated: 10th December 2020 by Margaret