The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Valentine was given to Whistler's cousin Emma Woodbridge Palmer (1835-1912) on 14 February 1850.

Valentine, Glasgw University Library

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 26).

Images

Subject

Description

Valentine, Glasgw University Library

The illustration shows a soldier in uniform (he appears be wearing a hat with a cockade) dancing with a young woman who has long dark hair. Their faces are not defined.

Technique

Technique

The figures were painted neatly, using a small, fine-pointed brush. The paint (blue and reds) was a little dry. The sheet was folded vertically at left, centre and right.

History

Provenance

• 1850: given on 14 February to Whistler's cousin Emma Woodbridge Palmer (1835-1912);
• By or in 1912: passed to her sister Anna Palmer Stanton;
• 1928: sent on 9 April to Kate R. McDiarmid née Robinson [b. 1881/1882] whose husband, James Cowling McDiarmid (1876-1944), was the great-grandson of Anne McNeill (1773–1853).
• By 1972: in the collection of Mr and Mrs Sherman Lurie, New York.
• 1978: bought from Hans Peter Kraus of Ursus Books, New York, by the University of Glasgow.

Note: despite the family connections, this is not part of the Birnie Philip or Revillon collections. For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more].

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 26) as 'Valentine'.