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

 

M.1527
The Green Cap

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892, 1902
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1902.112a-c
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 7-7 1/16 x 10 3/4-10 7/8" (178-180 x 273-276 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

The Green Cap

The Green Cap may have been started in 1892 when Beatrice Philip (Mrs E. W. Godwin, Mrs J. McN. Whistler) (1857-1896) mentioned a pastel of an 'exquisite little lady nursing a doll.' 1 However, it was completed and signed later, possibly in or after 1899. It was bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) in 1902 but 'Left with Mr.Whistler to work on' and only sent to Freer after Whistler's death. 2

The Green Cap, Freer Gallery of Art
The Green Cap, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1527).

Notes:

1: B. Whistler to E. G. Kennedy, [22 October / November 1892], GUW #09703.

2: Notes by Freer, 31 August 1899,16 June 1902, Journal voucher No. l, August 1902, and memo, 25 August 1902, FGA.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret