Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.0142
Monk reading

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: St Louis Art Museum, MO
Accession Number: 1:1923
Medium: gouache and watercolour
Support: dark brown paper
Size: 11 13/16 x 15 9/16" (300 x 395 mm)
Signature: 'J. Whistler.'
Inscription: 'Presented to Cadet A. K. Leigh by his affectionate room-mate Cadet James A. Whistler.'
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Monk reading

Provenance

  • 1853/1854: given to a fellow West Point cadet, Arthur Kerr Leigh (1835-1864);
  • 1864: Leigh died of yellow fever in Galverston, Texas.
  • 1923: given on 5 January by William Keeney Bixby (1857-1931) to St Louis Art Museum.

Exhibitions

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

Last updated: 3rd January 2019 by Margaret