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

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M.1564
A club on a cushion

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.286
Medium: graphite pencil, pen, black ink and white opaque paint
Support: cream wove card
Size: 4 11/16 x 6 1/4" (119 x 159 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: 'size across/ from tassel to tassel -'; collector's mark of 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster); v.: in unknown hands '33.286 / 12 / a44123'

A club on a cushion

Provenance

  • 1920: sold on 16 April by Albert Louis Roullier (1858-1920) , art dealer, Chicago, to Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954) ;
  • 1933: given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

The earlier provenance is unknown. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1561).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret