The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Elinor and Florence Leyland dates from 1873/1875.

Elinor and Florence Leyland, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 522).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Elinor and Florence Leyland, Freer Gallery of Art

Elinor Leyland (1861-1952) and Florence Leyland (1859-1921).

Technique

Technique

Elinor and Florence Leyland, Freer Gallery of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 522).

History

Provenance

• 1908: Obach & Co., London art dealers, sent eleven drawings to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), from which he bought four including this;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

The earlier provenance is not known. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 522).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

By the terms of C. L. Freer's will, this drawing can not be lent to other venues.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 522) as 'Elinor and Florence Leyland'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 248, pl. 225.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1908.194a-b.