The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

The Ermine Coat dates from 1871/1873.

The Ermine Coat, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 4195).

Images

Subject

Sitter

The Ermine Coat, Freer Gallery of Art

Possibly Alice Foy Greaves (1852-1921).

Technique

Technique

The Ermine Coat, Freer Gallery of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 419).

History

Provenance

• Date unknown: acquired by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904);
• 1904: passed to his executors;
• 1904: on 7 June, Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, left a bid with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer, for 14 drawings from the Forbes collection;
• 1905: Freer 's offer was accepted (Freer Diary; 24 July 1905);
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

The early provenance is unknown. For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 419).

Exhibitions

• 1904: Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, Goupil Gallery, London, 1904 (cat. no. 12) as 'The Ermine Coat'.
• 1904: Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also pictures lent by the executors of the late James Staats Forbes and others, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904 (cat. no. 256) as 'The Sable Jacket'

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 419) as 'The Ermine Coat'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, Goupil Gallery, London, 1904 (cat. no. 12) as 'The Ermine Coat'.
• Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also pictures lent by the executors of the late James Staats Forbes and others, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904 (cat. no. 256) as 'The Sable Jacket'

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 256, pl. 242.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.139a-b.