The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0931
Note in black and grey
Date
Note in black and grey dates from 1883/1884.
Note in black and grey, Fogg Art Museum
This work is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 931).
Images
Note in black and grey, Fogg Art Museum
Subject
Sitter
Note in black and grey, Fogg Art Museum
Not identified. The young woman may have been a servant.
Technique
Technique
Note in black and grey, Fogg Art Museum
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 931).
History
Provenance
- 1886: bought from Messrs Dowdeswell, London, by Clara Sophia Jessup Blomfield-Moore (Mrs B. H. Moore) (1824-1899);
- 1900: sold at her estate sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 5 May 1900 (lot 2) as 'A young lady in grey', and bought by Boussod, Valadon & Cie (Goupil).
- Before 1904: with Albert Louis Roullier (1858-1920), Chicago art dealer;
- 1927: sold by Alphonse Kann (1870-1948), art dealer, through Martin Birnbaum (1878-1970), to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943), 1 December 1927;
- 1943: bequeathed by Winthrop to the Fogg Art Museum.
Exhibitions
- 1886: Probably 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 40) as 'Note in black and grey'.
- 1901: Probably Spring Exhibition, Goupil Gallery, London, 1901 (cat. no. 33) as 'Girl in Black'.
- 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 104) as 'Young Girl Standing'.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 931) as 'Note in black and grey'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
EXHIBITION:
- Probably 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 40) as 'Note in black and grey'.
- Probably Spring Exhibition, Goupil Gallery, London, 1901 (cat. no. 33) as 'Girl in Black'.
- Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 104) as 'Young Girl Standing'.
SALE:
- Christie's, London, 5 May 1900 (lot 2) as 'A young lady in gray'.
Books, General
- Wadley, Nicholas, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing, New York, 1991, p. 249, repr. pl. 83b.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Gillerman, Dorothy W. (ed.), Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1969, p. 244.
- Wolohojian, Stephan, (ed.), A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, pp. 475-76 (cat. no. 218), repr.
- Wolohojian, Stephan, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2003, pp. 492-93, (cat. no. 218), repr.
- Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr, American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2006, checklist.
COLLECTION:
- Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr, Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, (eds), American Paintings at Harvard, vol. 2, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. 421-23 (cat. no. 449), repr. p. 422.
Websites
- Harvard Art Museums website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org.