The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Woman drinking dates from 1853/1854 and was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and family.

Woman drinking,

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 132).

Images

Subject

Description

Woman drinking,

The head and shoulder of a young woman waering a wide-brimmed straw hat, in three-quarter view to right. At the right edge. a hand appears, offering a tall glass of wine.

Technique

Technique

Woman drinking,

An elaborately shaded, cross-hatched and highly finished drawing. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 132).

Conservation History

The sketch 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, as far as is known, 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. 132) as 'Woman drinking'.

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.