The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Rosettes dates from 1871/1874.

Rosettes, Fitzwilliam Museum

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 435).

Images

Subject

Description

Rosettes, Fitzwilliam Museum

A group of three rosettes is at the top of the sheet, a single one in the centre, and a pair below, all in shades of white, yellow and orange.

Technique

Composition

Rosettes, Fitzwilliam Museum

Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, The Frick Collection

This is one of two studies for rosettes to be applied on the dress in Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland y106. ¹ The inscription, in French, implies that the dress or the rosettes were made in France (of which there is no other suggestion), or that the dress-maker was French.

History

Provenance

• Date unknown: with Messrs Dowdeswell, London art dealers (label).
• By 1903: owned by Mrs Charles Julius Kino/Knowles (née Louisa Essinger) (b.1850, m.1874), Kensington Gore;
• 1959: bequeathed by her son, Guy John Fenton Kino or Knowles (1879-1959), to the Fitzwilliam Museum.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 435).

Exhibitions

• 1903: possibly 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, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 16).
• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 87).

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 435) as 'Rosettes'.
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 106).

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly 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, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 16).
• Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 87).

Books on Whistler

• MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, p. 108, repr. p. 108, pl. 102.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006 (cat. no. 104).

Websites

• Fitzwilliam Museum website.