The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Seated woman with red hair dates from 1870/1873.

Seated woman with red hair, National Gallery of Art, DC

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 365).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Seated woman with red hair, National Gallery of Art, DC

Not identified.

Technique

Composition

Seated woman with red hair, National Gallery of Art, DC

This may have been a variations on figures intended for The White Symphony: Three Girls y087, or for another of the 'Six Projects'.

Conservation History

There are the marks of glue along the slightly uneven upper edge.

History

Provenance

• Before 1928: owned by Hubert Maitland Budgett (1882-1951), Master of Hounds, Kirtlington Park, Oxford;
• 1928: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1928 (lot 303, iii), bought by Colnaghi, London art dealers;
• 1928: Kennedy, New York dealers, took half shares on 1 December 1928;
• 1929: sold on 18 January 1929;
• 1929: bought from Charles Sessler (1854-1935), Phladelphia, by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), 28 March 1929;
• 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC;
• 1980: transferred from Alverthorpe to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. nos. 349, 365, 415).

Exhibitions

No exhibition has been identified 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. 365) as 'Seated woman with red hair'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

SALE:

• Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1928 (lot 303 iii repr.).

Websites

• National Gallery of Art website at https://www.nga.gov/.