The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Man with a cigar dates from 1853/1854; it was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and family.

Man with a cigar, Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 156).

Images

Subject

Description

Man with a cigar, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A head and shoulders study of a depressed-looking man facing front, smoking a cigar.

Technique

Technique

Man with a cigar, Metropolitan Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 156).

Conservation History

The original owners, the Winans family, stuck it into an album or scrapbook.

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 Whistletr'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. 156) as 'Man with a cigar'.

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.