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

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M.0933
Lady in Grey

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883/1884
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 06.312
Medium: watercolour and gouache
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/8 x 5" (283 x 127 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Lady in Grey

Composition

Whistler in his London studio, photograph, Library of Congress
Whistler in his London studio, photograph, Library of Congress
Detail of statuette in photograph of Whistler in his studio, Library of Congress
Detail of statuette in photograph of Whistler in his studio, Library of Congress
Lady in Grey, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lady in Grey, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Whistler worked with Thomas Waldo Story (1855-1915) on a series of small statuettes such as the one on the shelf behind him in this photograph, which shows a woman with similar costume and prominent hat. The statuettes were unfortunately broken and none seem to have survived.

Technique

Lady in Grey, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lady in Grey, Metropolitan Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 933).

Last updated: 4th June 2021 by Margaret