The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Female Figure with Fan dates from 1873/1876.

Female Figure with Fan, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 532).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Female Figure with Fan, Freer Gallery of Art

Not identified, but it could possibly be Fanny Leyland (1857-1880).

Technique

Technique

Female Figure with Fan, Freer Gallery of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 532).

History

Provenance

• By 1903: owned by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904);
• 1903-1904: with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art dealer;
• 1905: with the Executors of the estate of J. S. Forbes;
• 1905: bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919);
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

• 1903: possibly 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. 177 or 190) and 1904 (cat. no. 2 or 8) as 'Lady with Fan'.
• 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. 390) as 'Female Figure with Fan'.

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. 532) as 'Female Figure with Fan'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly 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. 177 or 190) and 1904 (cat. no. 2 or 8) as 'Lady with Fan'.
• 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. 390) as 'Female Figure with Fan'.

Books on Whistler

• Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 139, repr. fig. 3.27.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 253, pl. 236.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.142a-b.