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

 

M.0331
Two figures seated and one standing

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1866/1869
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943-626
Medium: crayon and chalk
Support: cream laid watermarked paper, laid down on card
Size: 8 1/8 x 7 3/16" (207 x 182 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Two figures seated and one standing

Provenance

  • 1908: possibly sold with r.: A female figure; v.: Nude [M.0366] at auction, Christie's, London, 27 May 1908 (lot 381) as 'Two figures' and bought by 'Paterson'.
  • 1913: probably sold at auction, Christie's, London, 15 May 1913 (lot 15) as 'Study of two female figures' and bought by 'Partington'.
  • By 1917: owned by Hunt Henderson (1869-1939) ;
  • 1939: bequeathed to Tulane University;
  • 1941: bought by Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943) , April 1941;
  • 1943: bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum.

The early provenance is uncertain. It was said to have belonged to Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 1 but there is no proof of this. For further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 331).

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.

Notes:

1: Etchings, Lithographs, Paintings and Drawings by James McNeill Whistler, Art Association of New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, 1917 (cat. no. 15).

Last updated: 11th February 2021 by Margaret