The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

A West Point drummer, and sketches dates from 1852/1853.

A West Point drummer, and sketches, Private Collection

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 122).

Images

Subject

Sitter

A West Point drummer, and sketches, Private Collection

The drummers, and the young man whose head appears at lower right, were probably fellow cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Technique

Technique

A West Point drummer, and sketches, Private Collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 122).

Frame

A West Point drummer, and sketches, Private Collection

A photograph in The Frick Art Reference Library shows this drawing, framed, with a group of seven drawings owned by William Robertson Boggs (1829-1911) and his descendants. These include A West Point drummer, and sketches m0122, Cadet life m0123, Plebs Policing m0124, Russian Dragoon m0125, Sam Weller and Mary fold a carpet m0135 and Valentine m0136. ^{1 2}

History

Provenance

• 1852/1853: given to William Robertson Boggs (1829-1911);
• 1911: bequeathed to his daughter, Mrs William Barret Taylor, née Elizabeth McCaw Boggs (1857-1922), Winston, NC;
• 1922: bequeathed to her daughter, Mrs Ralph Long née Cornelia Storrs Taylor (1895-1972), Wilmington, NC;
• 1972-present: passed by family descent to a private collection.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 122): the record has been revised.

Exhibitions

As far as is known, 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. 122) as 'A West Point drummer, and sketches'.