The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: 'Tibi Gracias'; v.: A spinning top (?) date from 1853/1854. It was given by Whistler to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and put into an album.

r.: 'Tibi Gracias', Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 141).

Images

Subject

Description

r.: 'Tibi Gracias', Metropolitan Museum of Art

A fat monk, at left, raises in hands in benediction over the well-filled table at right.

Technique

Technique

r.: 'Tibi Gracias', Metropolitan Museum of Art

v.: A spinning top (?), Metropolitan Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 141).

Conservation History

The original owners stuck this and other sketches 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. 141) as 'r.: 'Tibi Gracias'; v.: A spinning top (?)'.

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 saying grace'.