The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck was drawn on the verso of an unrelated letter from Albert Ludovici, Jr (1852-1932), in London, to Whistler, in Paris, dated 23 May 1898. ¹

Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck, Gasgow University Library

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1543).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck, Gasgow University Library

Marion Peck (Mrs W. R. Farquhar) (1872-1942).

Technique

Composition

Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck, Gasgow University Library

This is a study of, or for, the Portrait of Miss Marion Peck y439.

Technique

It is a tentative sketch with multiple outlines, drawn with a slightly soft pencil.

Conservation History

Ludovici's letter is on the first three sides of a thin sheet of paper, the drawing being on the fourth. It was folded three times and the folds are slightly discoloured, and torn at bottom centre of each side.

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903 and bequeathed to his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1955: given by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1543) as 'Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck'.
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 439).

Websites

• The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2003-2004, GUW #02313.