The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0494
r.: Design for matting; v.: Design for matting
Date
r.: Design for matting; v.: Design for matting date from 1873/1875.
r.: Design for matting, Fitzwilliam Museum
v.: Design for matting, Fitzwilliam Museum
The designs are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 494).
Images
r.: Design for matting, Fitzwilliam Museum
v.: Design for matting, Fitzwilliam Museum
Subject
Description
r.: Design for matting, Fitzwilliam Museum
A roughly sketched design for woven matting, with bands of chequered pattern, and some assymetrical star or flower inserts, possibly for Whistler's own studio, or for Aubrey House, Kensington.
Technique
Composition
r.: Design for matting, Fitzwilliam Museum
v.: Design for matting, Fitzwilliam 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.
History
Provenance
- By 1903: owned by Mrs Charles Julius Kino/Knowles (née Louisa Essinger) (b.1850, m.1874), Kensington Gore, London;
- Date unknown: passed to her son, Guy John Fenton Kino or Knowles (1879-1959);
- 1959: bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum.
See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 494).
Exhibitions
- 1903-1904: possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 33) as 'Study for a Background'.
- 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 162) as 'Design for Matting'.
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. 494) as 'r.: Design for matting; v.: Design for matting'.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- Possibly Watercolours, Pastels, Drawings in Black and White, Sculptures and Bronzes By British and Foreign Artists Including A Selection of Works by H. B. Brabazon, and A Group of Works by the late James McNeill Whistler, W. Marchant & Co., Goupil Gallery, London, 1903 (cat. no. 33) as 'Study for a Background'.
- Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 162) as 'Design for Matting'.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006 (cat. no. 105).
Websites
- Fitzwilliam Museum website.