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

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Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac'

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac' was drawn in a letter from Whistler to David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), dated 'Saturday', and stamped on receipt, 29 April 1894. 1 It shows Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac [YMSM 398], which was then on exhibition at the Exposition Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Champ de Mars, Paris, 1894.


                Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac', Library of Congress
Sketch of 'Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac', Library of Congress

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1405).

Notes:

1: [27-28 April 1894], GUW #08265.

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