The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Mother and Child dates from about 1890.

Mother and Child, Private Collection

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1282). This record has been updated.

Images

Subject

Sitter

Mother and Child, Private Collection

Probably Rose Amy Pettigrew (1872-1958), probably with her niece. The sisters' older brother Alfred and his wife Jane had a little girl, Harriet Lilian, in 1885. Another baby, Ethel Jenny, was born in 1893. She remembers being taken to visit Rose and could therefore have been 'Baby Pettigrew'.

Technique

Technique

Mother and Child, Private Collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1282).

History

Provenance

• Date unknown: with Boussod, Valadon & Cie, art dealers, London and Paris (label).
• 1890/1903: said to have been bought from Whistler by 'Behg', Paris;
• By 1904: bought from 'Behg' by John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911);
• 1911: passed by family descent to a private collector;
• 1982: sold at auction, Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 1982 (lot 14, repr.) and bought by a private collector;
• By 2015: Thomas Colville Fine Art, New York, NY, and Guilford, CT.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1282).

Exhibitions

• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 115) as 'Mother and child'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1282) as 'Mother and Child'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 115) as 'Mother and child'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Whistler and his Influence, Thomas Colville Fine Art, The Art Show, The Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2015, repr.