The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Miss Cicely Alexander dates from after 28 October 1880, and probably from the following year.

Miss Cicely Alexander, Baltimore Museum of Art

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 844).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Miss Cicely Alexander, Baltimore Museum of Art

Cicely Henrietta Alexander (1864-1932) posed for Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander y129 of which this is probably a memory sketch. She would not have posed for the drawing.

Technique

Composition

Miss Cicely Alexander, Baltimore Museum of Art

Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander, Tate Britain

This is probably a memory sketch (and not a very accurate one) of the oil, Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander y129.

History

Provenance

• 1881 or shortly after: probably acquired from the artist by George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909), Paris and Baltimore;
• 1909: bequeathed to Maryland Institute of Art and placed on loan to the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

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. 844) as 'Miss Cicely Alexander'.

Books on Whistler

• Duret, Théodore, Histoire de J. McN. Whistler et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1904, repr. p. 36 as 'Croquis du portrait de Miss Alexander (Cecily-Henrietta)'.