The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks dates from about 1900.

Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1603).

Images

Subject

Site

The Rich Peacock and the Poor Peacock, mural on south wall of the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art

Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room y178, in Princes' Gate, London.

Technique

Composition

Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Shutters of the Peacock Room with peacock decoration, Freer Gallery of Art

The Rich Peacock and the Poor Peacock, mural on south wall of the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art

A memory sketch of Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room y178'

Technique

It is on similar paper to Sketches of 'The Gold Scab' m1602.

History

Provenance

• ca 1900: given by the artist to George Francis (Frank) Miles (1852-1894).
• 1950: bought by the Pennell Fund, Library of Congress, 25 January 1950 (500024).

Sketches of 'The Gold Scab' m1602 may have come from the same unidentified source.

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. 178) as 'Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks'.
• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1603).

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.