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

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M.1286
Study: Woman and child

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1893/1894
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 7 x 10 1/2" (177 x 266 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: unknown

Study: Woman and child

Provenance

  • 1893: with Alexander Reid (1854-1928), Glasgow art dealer, but sent to Whistler for possible exhibition;
  • 1894: bought by Dugald M'Corkindale (d. 1903) , Glendermoth, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, in May 1894;
  • 1903: sold at auction, Morrison, Dick & M'Culloch, Glasgow, 6-7 November 1903 (lot 114).

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1286).

Exhibitions

Whistler had considered sending it to the Salon but changed his mind and touched it up instead. 1

Notes:

1: Whistler to A. Reid, 22 April [1893] and [30 April 1893], GUW #03238 and #03210; and to D. M'Corkindale, 10/20 May 1894], GUW #09232'

Last updated: 5th March 2021 by Margaret