The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Studies of Baby Leyland dates from 1873/1874.

Studies of Baby Leyland, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 515).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Studies of Baby Leyland, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

Elinor Leyland (1861-1952).

Technique

Composition

Studies of Baby Leyland, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

These may be studies for the The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland y111.

Conservation History

Torn up by Whistler but restored by Thomas Way (1837-1915).

It was in an album when sold at auction in 1965,

History

Provenance

• 1870s: acquired by Thomas Way (1837-1915) and passed to his son Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913);
• 1913: bequeathed to his widow Amy Ellen Cox, Mrs T. R. Way (1865-1949);
• Date unknown: acquired by Pickford Robert Waller (1849-1930);
• 1930: bequeathed to his daughter Sybil Christina Waller (1882-1973);
• 1965: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 12 November 1965 (lot 38) and bought by Knoedler's, New York art dealers;
• 1969: bought by the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 19 May 1969.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 516) as 'Studies of Baby 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. 111).
• 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. 111).

Books on Whistler

• Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, repr. f.p. 30.