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

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M.1530
The Bead Stringers

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46271
Medium: charcoal and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on double sided card
Size: 7 1/16 x 10 3/4" (180 x 273 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'The Bead Stringers/ Exhibited Paris 1905' in R. B. Phi1ip's hand

The Bead Stringers

Titles

Whistler referred to a pastel, probably this, as 'Conversation - Beads'. However, after Whistler's death, it was exhibited as 'En enfilant des perles. - (Bead Stringing)'. 1 Miss R B. Philip wrote the title 'The Bead Stringers', which is generally accepted, on the verso of the frame.

Sitter

The Bead Stringers, The Hunterian
The Bead Stringers, The Hunterian

Eva Victoria Carrington (1887-1979) and Gladys Winifred Carrington (1889-1940) . Eva holds a necklace and Gladys, a fan.

Notes:

1: List of possible sales to Richard Albert Canfield (1855-1914), [8 May 1903], GUW #13077. Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 149).

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret