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

 

M.0542
Portrait of a boy

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1873/1878
Collection: Colby College Museum of Art
Accession Number: 2013.299
Medium: chalk
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 7/8 x 7 3/8" (277 x 187 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'G.Mignot / [by?] Whistler' in unknown hand

Portrait of a boy

Provenance

  • Date unknown: passed by family descent to a private collector.
  • Before 2013: bought by Paula Crane Lunder (b. 1935) and Peter H. Lunder (b. 1933) ;
  • 2013: given to Colby College Museum of Art, The Lunder Collection.

Exhibitions

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

Last updated: 3rd June 2021 by Margaret