The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Mrs Leyland, standing, holding a book dates from 1871/1874.

Mrs Leyland, standing, holding a book, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 437).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Mrs Leyland, standing, holding a book, Freer Gallery of Art

Frances Leyland (1834-1910).

Technique

Composition

Mrs Leyland, standing, holding a book, Freer Gallery of Art

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. In it she faces right in stead of turning to left.

History

Provenance

• 1908: one of four drawings out of eleven sent by Obach, London art dealers, and bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, on 13 October 1908 (31 December 1908, voucher No. 43, FGA);
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

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

By the terms of C. L. Freer's will, this drawing can not be lent to other venues.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 437) as 'Mrs Leyland, standing, holding a book'.
• 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, p. 106. fig. 99.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 251, pl. 230.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1908.196a-b.