The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0291
r.: Seated woman, smoking; v.: Head of child
Date
r.: Seated woman, smoking; v.: Head of child date from 1858 or 1859.
r.: Seated woman, smoking, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Head of child, Freer Gallery of Art
The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 291).
Images
r.: Seated woman, smoking, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Head of child, Freer Gallery of Art
Subject
Sitter
r.: Seated woman, smoking, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Head of child, Freer Gallery of Art
Probably Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908), and one of her children, possibly Annie Harriet Haden (1848-1937).
Technique
Technique
r.: Seated woman, smoking, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Head of child, Freer Gallery of Art
The sheet may have come from a sketchbook.
History
Provenance
- 1858: probably given to Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) or her husband Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910);
- 1898: sold through Wunderlich, New York dealers, to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919);
- 1919: bequeathed by C. L. Freer to the Freer Gallery of Art.
Exhibitions
It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Due to the conditions of Freer's will, it cannot be lent to another venue.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 291) as 'r.: Seated woman, smoking; v.: Head of child'.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 234, pl. 198.
Websites
- Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1898.182, as 'Seated woman, smoking'.