The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Drawings were mentioned, but not identified, in a letter on 14 May 1898 from Albert Ludovici, Jr (1852-1932), who was hanging the firstExhibition of International Art, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Knightsbridge, London, 1898. He asked Whistler, 'I want to know, what we are to do with two charming pen and ink drawings by you - that came in a former case from Paris - you did not say hang them, so that I am rather in a fix about them.' ¹ On 23 May he suggested they should be hung with drawings by Jean Louis Forain (1852-1931) :

'would you care to have your two little drawings shown in the Forain group - as we shall probably have to erect a screen of some sort to show them[.] we could say that yours were also a late arrival and that would give the Show another fillip - of course I will not do anything, until I hear from you.' ²

The drawings are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1541).

Images

Subject

Description

Unknown.

Technique

Technique

Unknown.

History

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

• 1898: possibly Exhibition of International Art, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Knightsbridge, London, 1898 (ex. cat.).

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1541) as 'Drawings'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly Exhibition of International Art, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Knightsbridge, London, 1898 (ex. cat.).