The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

'Then Sir - I am the King of Spain!!!' dates from about 1854 and was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878).

'Then Sir - I am the King of Spain!!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 166).

Images

Subject

Comments

'Then Sir - I am the King of Spain!!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art

The source of the quotation has not been identified.

Technique

Technique

'Then Sir - I am the King of Spain!!!', Metropolitan Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 166).

Conservation History

This was among numerous drawings given to the Winans family and stuck 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

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. 166) as ''Then Sir - I am the King of Spain!!!''.

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.