The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

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

Man and woman at table, Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 150).

Images

Subject

Description

Man and woman at table, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A neatly dressed woman at left sits facing right, at a small round table. At right, and slightly in front of the table, facing three-quarter left, is a roughly dressed bearded man in a tall arm chair.

Technique

Technique

Man and woman at table, Metropolitan Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 150).

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. 150) as 'Man and woman at table'.

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.