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

 

M.0896
Portrait of Miss Maud Franklin

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883/1888
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.298
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: cream laid paper, partial watermark 'THE WAR... / [crown] / JOHN WA... / LON...'
Size: 7 x 4 3/8-4 7/16" (178 x 111-113 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'E.977' in unknown hand

Portrait of Miss Maud Franklin

Provenance

  • 1890s?: possibly acquired by Whistler's son, Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935) .
  • 1924: with E. Parsons, London art dealer (cat. no. 162).
  • 1928: possibly sold by Albert Louis Roullier (1858-1920), Chicago art dealer, to Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954) , November 1928;
  • 1933: given by Brewster to the Art Institute of Chicago.

For further details, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 896).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret