M.0717 Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland'
Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1879 Collection: Art Institute of Chicago Accession Number: 1921.124 Medium: pen and brown ink Support: cream pseudo-laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper Size: 7 1/16 x 4 7/16" (180 x 113 mm) Signature: butterfly Inscription: 'Miss Eleanor (sic) Leyland. "Babs". original sketch for a picture never completed, and destroyed by Whistler in the early part of 1879.' written by C. A. Howell on support paper
