The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0149
40 and 50
Date
40 and 50 dates from 1853/1854; it was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878).
40 and 50, Metropolitan Museum of Art
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 149).
Images
40 and 50, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject
Description
40 and 50, Metropolitan Museum of Art
A caricature of a seated couple facing front, the woman at left, neatly dressed, with curly hair, and the elderly man rather fat, holding forth, with his right arm raised.
Technique
Technique
40 and 50, Metropolitan Museum of Art
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 149).
Conservation History
The original owners stuck this and other sketches 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, as far as is known, 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. 149) as '40 and 50'.
Journals 1906-Present
- Pressly, Nancy D., 'Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings', Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 125-54.
Websites
- Metropolitan Museum of Art website