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

 

M.0842
Sketch of 'Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.614
Medium: pen and greyish-brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper with watermark of crown over seated female figure with spear and shield (?Britannia)
Size: 6 9/16 x 6 3/8-6 7/16" (167 x 162-164 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Croquis du Portrait de Carlyle'

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle'

Provenance

  • Before 1935: owned by Gustav Nebehay (1881-1935), art dealer, Berlin (photograph, Witt Library, Courtauld Institute).
  • 1943: bequeathed by Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943) to the Fogg Art Museum.

The earlier provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

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

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret