The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sketches of 'The Gold Scab' dates from about 1900.

Sketches of 'The Gold Scab', Library of Congress, Washington, DC

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1602).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Sketches of 'The Gold Scab', Library of Congress, Washington, DC

The figure was a caricature of Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892).

Technique

Composition

Sketches of 'The Gold Scab', Library of Congress, Washington, DC

The Gold Scab, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

This is a memory sketch of The Gold Scab y208.

Technique

It is on similar paper to Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks m1603.

History

Provenance

• ca 1900: possibly given by the artist to George Francis (Frank) Miles (1852-1894).
• 1950: bought by the Library of Congress, 25 January 1950.

Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks m1603 was bought on the same day, and may have come from the same source, whatever that was. It is likely that both had been owned by G. F. Miles.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1602).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 208) as 'Sketches of 'The Gold Scab''.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1602).

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Filthy Lucre: Painters, Patrons, and the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, DC. 2015 (no cat. no.).

Websites

• Library of Congress website at http://www.loc.gov.