The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Taxes! dates from about 1854 and was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and family.

Taxes!, Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 162).

Images

Subject

Description

Taxes!, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A man in three-quarter view to left. He wears a flat brimmed straw hat, broad three-quarter length jacket, narrow trousers, and is writing in a notebook.

Technique

Technique

Taxes!, Metropolitan Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 162).

Conservation History

The original owners, the Winans family, stuck it into an album or scrapbook.

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

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. 162) as 'Taxes!'.

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.