The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

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

Cavalier, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 167).

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Subject

Description

Cavalier, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

A flamboyant cavalier, possibly inspired by Le Sage's The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santinane, published in 1715-1735, or Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha, of 1605.

Technique

Technique

Cavalier, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 167).

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. 167) as 'Cavalier'.

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 .