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

Provenance

  • 1929: bought in December from Albert Louis Roullier (1858-1920) , Chicago art dealer, by Kate L. Brewster (née Lancaster) ca 1879-1947), Chicago;
  • 1933: given by her husband, Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954) to the Art Institute of Chicago.

The earlier provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret