The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: Design for matting; v.: Design for panelling date from 1873/1875.

r.: Design for matting, Fogg Art Museum

v.: Design for panelling, Fogg Art Museum

The designs are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 493).

Images

Subject

Site

v.: Design for panelling, Fogg Art Museum

The decoration was probably intended for Aubrey House, Kensington, home of William Cleverly Alexander (1840-1916) and family.

Technique

Composition

r.: Design for matting, Fogg Art Museum

r.: Design for matting; v.: Design for panelling m0493 and r.: Design for matting; v.: Design for matting m0494 may be designs for the carpetting in such portraits as Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland y106 and Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander y129

v.: Design for panelling, Fogg Art Museum

The panelling is like Whistler's designs for Aubrey House, Kensington, such as Designs for wall decorations for Aubrey House m0490.

History

Provenance

• 1917: sold by Messrs Dowdeswell, London, to Colnaghi, London art dealers, 28 March 1917;
• 1921: sold by Colnaghi's to Scott and Fowles, New York, June 1921.
• Date unknown: acquired by Hunt Henderson (1869-1939), New Orleans;
• 1939: bequeathed to Tulane University;
• 1941: sold to Grenville Lindell Winthrop (1864-1943), April 1941;
• 1943: bequeathed the Fogg Art Museum.

Exhibitions

No known exhibitions 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. 493) as 'r.: Design for matting; v.: Design for panelling'.

Books, General

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, pp. 136-137, fig. 4.29.
• Turner, Jane, The Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914, London, 2000, p. 627.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

• Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, (eds), American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Cambridge, MA, and New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 411-412 (cat. no. 440 A & B), repr. p. 412.

EXHIBITION:

• Wolohojian, Stephan (ed.), A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, pp. 470-71, (cat. no. 214), repr.
• Wolohojian, Stephan, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2003, p. 486, (cat. no. 214) repr.

Websites

• Harvard Museums website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/308003.