The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Study for 'Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour' dates from 1872/1874.

Study for 'Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour', Manchester Art Gallery

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no 469).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Study for 'Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour', Manchester Art Gallery

Not identified. Possibly Maud Franklin (1857-1939).

Technique

Composition

Study for 'Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour', Manchester Art Gallery

Study for 'Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour', Fogg Art Museum

This is a study for Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour y131.

Technique

It is unusual in having fine lines incised around the drawing, as if for tracing or transfer.

History

Provenance

• 1901: bought from the Carfax Gallery, London, by Charles Lambert Rutherston (1866-1927);
• 1925: given to Manchester Art Gallery.

It did not, as the Pennells thought, belong to Thomas Way (1837-1915). ¹

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 469).

Exhibitions

• 1904: City of Bradford Exhibition, Bradford, 1904 (cat. no. 467) as 'Study for the unfinished picture "The White Girl" '.
• 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. 178) as 'Lady with a Fan.'

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 469) as 'Study for 'Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour.
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 131).

Catalogues 1855-1905

• City of Bradford Exhibition, Bradford, 1904 (cat. no. 467).
• 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. 178) as 'Lady with a Fan.'

Books on Whistler

• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, repr. f. p. 134.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, repr. p. 255, pl. 240.2.

Websites

• Manchester Art Gallery, at manchesterartgallery.org (2018).