Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1876/1878 Collection: Whereabouts Unknown Accession Number: none Medium: crayon Support: brown paper Size: ca 8 x 6" (200 x 150 mm) Signature: none Inscription: v: said to be inscribed 'from Graves / Whistler / 1874'
1950: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 21 April 1950 (lot 140) as 'Studies of a Portrait of Bearded Young Man with a Girl' with Sketches of three heads[M.0654] and Lady seated[M.0655].
Despite the inscription, which suggests the drawing came from
Algernon Graves (1845-1922), there is some doubt about the early provenance and authenticity of this drawing.