The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: Portrait sketch of Thomas Carlyle; v.: Head date from 1872/1873.

r.: Portrait sketch of Thomas Carlyle, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawings are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 462).

Images

Subject

Sitter

r.: Portrait sketch of Thomas Carlyle, Freer Gallery of Art

v.: Head, Freer Gallery of Art

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881).

Technique

Composition

v.: Head, Freer Gallery of Art

r.: Portrait sketch of Thomas Carlyle, Freer Gallery of Art

Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, Glasgow Museums

These drawings are studies for Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle y137.

History

Provenance

• Before 1904: owned by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904);
• 1904-1905: Executors of James Staats Forbes;
• 1905: bought through William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

• 1903-1904: 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, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 193) and 1904 (cat. no. 5).
• 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. 258).
• 1905: Pictures given to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, National Museum, Dublin, 1905 (cat. no. 42a).

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. 462) as 'r.: Portrait sketch of Thomas Carlyle; v.: Head'.

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, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 193) and 1904 (cat. no. 5).
• 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. 258).
• Pictures given to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, National Museum, Dublin, 1905 (cat. no. 42a).

Journals 1855-1905

• Anon., 'London Exhibitions', Art Journal, 1904, pp. 96-98 at p. 67.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 247, pl. 223.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.143a-b.