The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0403
r.: Figure with flowers; v.: Dragonfly
Date
r.: Figure with flowers; v.: Dragonfly date from 1871/1873.
r.: Figure with flowers, Fogg Art Museum
v.: Dragonfly, Fogg Art Museum
They are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 403).
Images
r.: Figure with flowers, Fogg Art Museum
v.: Dragonfly, Fogg Art Museum
Note in flesh-colour gold – The Golden Blossom, The Hunterian
Subject
Sitter
Not identified
Technique
Composition
r.: Figure with flowers, Fogg Art Museum
Note in flesh-colour gold – The Golden Blossom, The Hunterian
There are several related drawings including Note in flesh-colour gold - The Golden Blossom m0402 and Study in Blue, Pink and Gold m0402a.
Technique
r.: Figure with flowers, Fogg Art Museum
v.: Dragonfly, Fogg Art Museum
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 403).
History
Provenance
- 1943: bequeathed by Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943) to the Fogg Art Museum.
Earlier provenance is not known.
Exhibitions
It was 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. 403) as 'r.: Figure with flowers; v.: Dragonfly'.
Books, General
- Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr, Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, (eds), American Paintings at Harvard, vol. 2, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 401 (cat. no. 430 A & B), repr.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Gillerman, Dorothy W. (ed.), Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1969, p. 244.
Websites
- Harvard Art Museums website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org.