The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Elinor Leyland dates from about 1873.

Elinor Leyland, Courtauld Institute

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 518).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Elinor Leyland, Courtauld Institute

Elinor Leyland (1861-1952).

Technique

Composition

Elinor Leyland, Courtauld Institute

This is probably a study for the The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland y111.

Technique

According to the Courtauld website, 'Chalk (black with white, applied moist as bodycolour) on paper (grey-buff wove, pierced with pin holes)'. ¹

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his detah and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1956: sold to Colnaghi's, London art dealers;
• 1956: bought by William Wycliffe Spooner (1882-1967);
• 1967: bequeathed to his wife, Mrs Mercie Spooner, Ilkley, Yorkshire, in trust for he Courtauld Galleries.

Exhibitions

• 1874: possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 7) as 'Head'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 518) as 'Elinor Leyland'.
• Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 111).

Catalogues 1855-1905

• Possibly Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 7) as 'Head'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• The Courtauld’s IMAF Centre for the Study and Conservation of Drawings, Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Institute, London, 2011, see website.

Websites

• Courtauld Institute of Art, A&A website at http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk.