The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland' dates from between 1873 and 1875, and was acquired by William Cleverly Alexander (1840-1916).

Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland', British Museum

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 519).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland', British Museum

Elinor Leyland (1861-1952).

Technique

Composition

Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss Elinor Leyland', British Museum

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

Conservation History

The drawing was placed in an album.

History

Provenance

• 1870s: acquired by William Cleverly Alexander (1840-1916);

• 1916: passed to his daughters Rachel Alexander (1875-1964) and Jean Ingelow Alexander (1877-1972);
• 1958: given by them to the British Museum.

Exhibitions

It was not 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. 519) as "Study for 'The Blue Girl: Portrait of Miss 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).