The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.0370
Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve

Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1870/1873
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.608
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 10 1/2 x 6 1/2" (266 x 166 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Date

Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve dates from 1870/1873 and may have been touched up and signed 1888/1890.

Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve, Fogg Art Museum
Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve, Fogg Art Museum

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 370).

Images

Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve, Fogg Art Museum
Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve, Fogg Art Museum

The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

Subject

Sitter

Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve, Fogg Art Museum
Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve, Fogg Art Museum

Matilda Maria Gilchrist née Potter (1826-1886).

She posed for the etching Tillie: A Model [113] and probably for the figure at left in The White Symphony: Three Girls y087 and The Three Girls y088.

Technique

Composition

Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve, Fogg Art Museum
Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve, Fogg Art Museum

The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art
The White Symphony: Three Girls, Freer Gallery of Art

This drawing may be a study for the etching Tillie: A Model [113] and is also closely related to the figure at left in The White Symphony: Three Girls y087 and The Three Girls y088. It is fairly highly finished, and was signed, possibly for sale, in 1890.

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