The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Tête d'homme barbu dates from 1886.

Tête d'homme barbu, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1099).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Tête d'homme barbu, The Hunterian

The bearded man has not been identified.

Technique

Technique

Tête d'homme barbu, The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1099).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903 and bequeathed to his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1935: given to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

• 1886: possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 72 or 73) as 'Portrait'.
• 1905: Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 173) as 'Tête d'homme barbu'.

For a discussion of possible exhibitions see r.: Tête d'homme barbu; v.: Head of a woman m1098.

NOTE: By the terms of Miss Birnie Philip's Gift, 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. 1099) as 'Tête d'homme barbu'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 72 or 73) as 'Portrait'.
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 173) as 'Tête d'homme barbu'.

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.