The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Mrs Leyland dates from 1871/1874.

Mrs Leyland, Fogg Art Museum

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 436).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Mrs Leyland, Fogg Art Museum

Frances Leyland (1834-1910).

Technique

Composition

Mrs Leyland, Fogg Art Museum

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

This is one of several studies related to Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland y106. The dress has some rosettes, but there is no train falling from the shoulders, her body is in profile to right, and she turns to look at the viewer, in total contrast to the pose in the oil.

History

Provenance

• By 1905: owned by Jacques Émile Blanche (1861-1942);
• 1934: bought from an exhibition, Blanche, His Art and Collection, at the Leicester Galleries, London, by an unknown collector.
• 1940: bought by Scott and Fowles, New York dealers, 23 February;
• 1940: sold in February to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943), New York;
• 1943: bequeathed to Harvard University.

Exhibitions

• 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. 84) as 'Mrs Leyland'.
• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 123b).

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 436) as 'Mrs Leyland'.
• 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).

Books on Whistler

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

Books, General

• Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, (eds), American Paintings at Harvard, Vol. 2, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Cambridge, MA, and New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. 403-04 (cat. no. 432), repr.

Websites

• Harvard Art Museums website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org.