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

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M.0442
Head of a woman

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.605
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 1/8 x 7 3/16" (258 x 183-186 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Whis 232' and '17' in unknown hands

Head of a woman

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 442) as 'Head of a woman'.

Books, General

  • Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, (eds), American Paintings at Harvard, Vol. 2, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Cambridge, MA, and New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 402 (cat. no. 431) repr.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Gillerman, Dorothy W., ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1969, p. 243.

Websites

  • Fogg Art Museum website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org.

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret