The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0168
Scenes from cadet life and Hugo or Dumas
Date
Scenes from cadet life and Hugo or Dumas probably date from 1854, and were drawn at USMA, West Point.
They are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 168).
Images
Scenes from cadet life and Hugo or Dumas, no image available
Subject
Description
These apparently included studies of cadets at the United States Military Academy, West Point. Other subjects were taken from the novels of Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) or Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). Loomis Lyman Langdon (1830-1910) recorded that 'The Three Guardsmen' (presumably meaning The Three Musketeers) as a favourite of Whistler and a fellow cadet, Frances Laurens Vinton (1835-1879). 1
Technique
Technique
Unknown.
History
Provenance
- Unknown.
Exhibitions
These were 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. 168) as 'Scenes from cadet life and Hugo or Dumas'.
Books on Whistler
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, pp. 308, 311-12.
Notes:
1: Pennell 1908 [more], vol. 2, pp. 308, 311-12.