The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0096
Holding it for a 'crack Shot'!
Date
Holding it for a 'crack Shot'! dates from between 1852 and 1853 and was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) or his family.
Holding it for a 'crack Shot'!, Metropolitan Museum of Art
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 96).
Images
Holding it for a 'crack Shot'!, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject
Site
This was almost certainly drawn at USMA, West Point, and represents a humorous take on exercises there.
Technique
Conservation History
The drawing was originally stuck into an album.
History
Provenance
- 1853/1854: given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and family;
- 1878-1970: passed by family descent to his daughter Celeste Marguerite Winans (Mrs G. M. Hutton) (1855-1925), her daughter Lucette Marguerite Hutton, Mrs H. A. Prichard (1885-1957), and grand-daughters, Margaret Celeste Prichard, Mrs T. A. Buell (1908-1970), Helen Lucette Prichard, Mrs J. M. King (1913-2005), and Sybil Agnes Prichard, Mrs E. G. Walk (1915-2009);
- 1970: given by Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibitions
It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 96) as 'Holding it for a "crack Shot"!'.
Websites
- Metropolitan Museum website