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'

Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland' dates from about 1879.

Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland', Art Institute Of Chicago
Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland', Art Institute Of Chicago

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 717).

Last updated: 10th December 2020 by Margaret