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

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M.0781
Seven sketches of heads; v.: Chart

Artist: Formerly attributed to James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1908.257
Medium: r.: pen and black ink; v.: crayon
Support: buff wove paper
Size: 5 1/2 x 13 13/16" (140 x 351 mm) uneven
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: 'Whistler/ Venice/ 80' and '21.29' in unknown hands; v.: numbers, possibly in Whistler's hand, and, in unknown hands, a graph, and 'Steal'
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Seven sketches of heads; v.: Chart

Provenance

  • 1879: according to Albert G. Reinhart or Reinhardt (b. 1854 ) he acquired this sketch, which Whistler had thrown away, in Venice;
  • 1907: probably bought from him by E. Gottschalk (dates unknown), New York;
  • 1908: sold by Gottschalk to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 781).

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret