The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Annie probably dates from between 6 November 1858 and 12 January 1859.

Annie, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 292).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Annie, Freer Gallery of Art

Annie Harriet Haden (1848-1937).

Technique

Composition

Annie, Freer Gallery of Art

At the Piano, Taft Museum, Cincinnati

This is a study of Annie Harriet Haden (1848-1937), probably for At the Piano y024.

History

Provenance

• 1858: probably given to Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) or her husband Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910);
• 1898: sold through Wunderlich, New York dealers, to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919);
• 1919: bequeathed by C. L. Freer to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Due to the conditions of Freer's will, it cannot be lent to another venue.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 292) as 'Annie'.
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 24), oil, 'At the Piano'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.157.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.157, as 'Annie'.