The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Christ with disciples dates from 1853/1854. It was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and family, who stuck it in an album.

Christ with disciples, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Christ with disciples, in Winans' album, Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 138).

Images

Subject

Description

Christ with disciples, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A white-robed, fair-haired man faces left, head bent, while two dark-robed bearded men face him, as if questioning him. Hills and a lake are indicated roughly at right.

Technique

Technique

Christ with disciples, Metropolitan Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 138).

Conservation History

Christ with disciples, in Winans' album, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The sketch was originally stuck into an album (p. 11).

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. 138) as 'Christ with disciples'.

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 'Christ and Two Disciples on the Road to Emmaus'.