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

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M.0870
Head of a girl

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1882/1883
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.297
Medium: pen and brown ink with scraping
Support: cream laid paper laid down on ivory board
Size: 4 5/8 x 3 11/16" (118 x 93 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Head of a girl

Technique

Head of a girl, Art Institute of Chicago
Head of a girl, Art Institute of Chicago

See Stephanie L. Strother, 'Cat. 24 Head of a Girl, c. 1882: Curatorial Entry,' in 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. 1

Conservation History

The edges of the sheet are slightly uneven, and there is paper loss at upper right.

Notes:

1: See also MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 870).

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret