The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0207
Seated man and lady
Date
Seated man and lady dates from between 1854 and 1860.
Seated man and lady, Private Collection
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 207).
Images
Seated man and lady, Private Collection
Subject
Sitter
Unknown.
Technique
Technique
Seated man and lady, Private Collection
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 207).
History
Provenance
- 1971: four drawings were sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1971 (lot 1) and bought by D'Offay, London art dealer;
- 1971: bought by Ernest Johns for Knoedler's, art dealers, and transferred to New York in 1973;
- 1975: sold to Richard H. Love, Signature Galleries, Chicago;
- 1975: sold to a private collection.
The earlier provenance is unknown. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 207).
Exhibitions
It was 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. 207) as 'Seated man and lady'.