The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0928
Bravura in brown
Date
Bravura in brown dates from 1883/1884.
Bravura in brown, Freer Gallery of Art
This work is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 928).
Images
Bravura in brown, Freer Gallery of Art
Verso not reproduced.
Subject
Sitter
Bravura in brown, Freer Gallery of Art
Possibly Maud Franklin (1857-1939).
Technique
Technique
The very faint image on the verso, not reproduced, is a study or rejected version of the main watercolour.
See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.
History
Provenance
- 1884/1885: bought through Messrs Dowdeswell, London dealers, by Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), London;
- 1902: bought in June by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
- 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.
Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 928).
Exhibitions
- 1884: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884, possibly as (cat. no. 66) as 'Bravura in Brown'.
Although it is almost certain this picture was exhibited at Dowdeswell's it is not certain that it was cat. no. 66 (see Bravura in Brown m0929).
By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be lent to another venue.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 928) as 'r: Bravura in brown, v: Piano'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 66) as 'Bravura in Brown', but see Bravura in Brown m0929.
Newspapers 1855-1905
- Anon., 'Messrs Dowdeswell's Gallery', The Morning Post, London, 24 May 1884, p. 5.
Books on Whistler
- Glazer, Lee, Emily Jacobson, Blythe McCarthy, and Katherine Roeder, Whistler in Watercolor: Lovely Little Games, New Haven and London, 2019.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 196, pl. 125.
- Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 79 (cat. no. 52).
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.167a-c.
- Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.