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

Home  > Catalogue > People > Joseph Pennell (related works) > Catalogue entry

M.1405
Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1894
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: Pennell Collection, PWC 18/1523-5
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream laid paper, f.s.
Size: 8 7/8 x 5 3/8" (225 x 137 mm)
Signature: 'J McN Whistler' on letter
Inscription: letter from Whistler to D. C. Thomson

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac'

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac' was drawn in a letter from Whistler to David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), dated 'Saturday', and stamped on receipt, 29 April 1894. 1 It shows Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac [YMSM 398], which was then on exhibition at the Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Champ de Mars, Paris, 1894.

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac', Library of Congress
Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac', Library of Congress

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1405).

Notes:

1: [27-28 April 1894], GUW #08265.

Last updated: 16th February 2021 by Margaret