The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0169
Two men drinking
Date
Two men drinking probably dates from 1854; it was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878).
Two men drinking, Metropolitan Museum of Art
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 169).
Images
Two men drinking, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject
Description
Two men drinking, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two men seated at a table, seen only to the waist; the one at right, who has a moustache and beard, looks askance at the turbanned or bonneted man at left, and is pouring wine from a flagon.
Technique
Technique
Two men drinking, Metropolitan Museum of Art
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 169).
Conservation History
This was among numerous drawings given to the Winans family and 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
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. 169) as 'Two men drinking'.
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
- Pressly, Nancy D., 'Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings', Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 125-54Metropolitan Museum of Art website.