The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

A lady reciting dates from 1901.

A lady reciting, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1661).

Images

Subject

Site

Drawn probably in Ajaccio, Corsica.

Sitter

A lady reciting, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Unidentified. She appears also in Woman in profile left m1662.

Technique

Technique

A lady reciting, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Lady at Dinner, sketchbook (p. 3), The Hunterian

The paper and subject are similar to a drawing in Whistler's small Corsican Sketchbook m1666, reproduced above; the sheet may have been taken from a similar notebook.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1661).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in the artist's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1957: bought by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd, London art dealers, 25 January, and sold on 17 May to Francis Falconer Madan (1886-1961);
• 1961: bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum.

Exhibitions

None in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1661) as 'A lady reciting'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Spencer, Robin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1969 (cat. no. 109).

Websites

• Ashmolean Museum website at http://collections.ashmolean.org.