The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Man standing dates from 1853/1854; it was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878).

Man standing, Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 148).

Images

Subject

Description

Man standing, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A fat man standing with legs wide apart, in aggressive stance, facing front. He looks very like the man in 40 and 50 m0149.

Technique

Technique

Man standing, Metropolitan Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 148).

Conservation History

Captain Cuttle, in Winans' album, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The original owners stuck this and other sketches into an albumm (p. 14).

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. 148) as 'Man standing'.

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