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

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Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1886
Collection: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Accession Number: P25e1
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 10 7/16 x 5 9/16" (270 x 141 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
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Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner

Titles

  • 'The Little Note in Yellow and Gold' (1886, Whistler). 1
  • 'Mrs Gardner in yellow and gold' (1931, Hendy). 2
  • 'Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner' (1995, MacDonald). 3

'Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner' is the preferred title.

Sitter

Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner, I. S. Gardner Museum
Note in Yellow and Gold: Mrs Gardner, I. S. Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924).

Notes:

1: Receipt dated 30 October 1886 by the recipient, in Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, GUW #09116.

2: Hendy 1931 [more], pp. 418-19.

3: MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1116).

Last updated: 28th February 2021 by Margaret