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

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M.1078
Girl in transparent drapery

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1890
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.611
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 10 15/16 x 7 3/16" (278 x 183 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: '9753. / 2983' in unknown hand

Girl in transparent drapery

Provenance

  • By 1927: with Alphonse Kann (1870-1948) ;
  • 1927: his sale to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943) through Martin Birnbaum (1878-1970), July 1927;
  • 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Musueum.

The early history of this drawing is unknown.

Exhibitions

Unknown.

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret