The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0175
Figures in a landscape
Date
Figures in a landscape was painted by Whistler and Loomis Lyman Langdon (1830-1910) for a fellow West Point Cadet, James Wright (d. 1857).
It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 175).
Images
Figures in a landscape, whereabouts unknown
Subject
Description
It was described by Langdon as 'a large picture', in which Langdon painted the landscape and Whistler, the figures. 1
Technique
Technique
It is unlikely that this was an oil painting although it was catalogued as such in 1980 (see Figures in a Landscape y002). All Whistler's surviving work from this period is in pen, pencil or watercolour.
History
Provenance
- 1854: given to Thomas J. Wright (d. 1857), a fellow cadet at USMA, West Point (class of 1854);
- 1857: Wright died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 26 October 1857.
Thomas J. Wright, the son of an army surgeon, Joseph J. B. Wright (fl. 1833), was a fellow cadet at West Point from 1850-1854. On graduating he served in the army at Jefferson Barracks, and was on frontier duty from 1855 until his death in 1857.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 175) as 'Figures in a landscape'.
- Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 2) as 'Figures in a Landscape'.
Books on Whistler
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, p. 307.
Notes:
1: Pennell 1908 [more], vol. 2, p. 307.