The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Man smoking a cigar dates from 1852 or 1853; it was given by Whistler to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and family.

Man smoking a cigar, Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 110).

Images

Subject

Description

Man smoking a cigar, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A dandy, broad flat straw hat worn at an angle, huge buttons on his jacket, narrrow trousers, stands smoking a cigar.

Technique

Conservation History

Man smoking a cigar, in Winans' Album, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The drawing was originally stuck into an album.

History

Provenance

• 1853/1854: given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and family;
• 1878-1970: passed by family descent to his daughter Celeste Marguerite Winans (Mrs G. M. Hutton) (1855-1925), her daughter Lucette Marguerite Hutton, Mrs H. A. Prichard (1885-1957), and grand-daughters, Margaret Celeste Prichard, Mrs T. A. Buell (1908-1970), Helen Lucette Prichard, Mrs J. M. King (1913-2005), and Sybil Agnes Prichard, Mrs E. G. Walk (1915-2009);
• 1970: given by Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 110) as 'Man smoking a cigar'.

Journals 1906-Present

• Pressly, Nancy D., 'Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings', Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 125-54.

Websites

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Website as 'Man Standing, Cigarette in Mouth'.