The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

The Lady with the Fan dates from 1873/1875.

The Lady with the Fan, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 535).

Images

Subject

Sitter

The Lady with the Fan, Freer Gallery of Art

Girl with a fan, University of Michigan Museum of Art

Not identified. What appears to be the same dress appears in Girl with a fan m0533.

Technique

Technique

The Lady with the Fan, Freer Gallery of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 535).

History

Provenance

• 1903: with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London dealer;
• By 1904: owned by James Staats Forbes (1823-1904);
• 1904: on 7 June, Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, left a successful bid with Marchant for 14 drawings from the Forbes collection;
• 1919: bequeathed by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 535).

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. 177 or 190) and 1904 (cat. no. 2 or 8) as 'Lady with a Fan.'
• 1904: Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also pictures lent by the executors of the late James Staats Forbes and others, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904 (cat. no. 253) as 'The Lady with the Fan'.
• 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. 398) as 'Lady with Fan.'

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. 535) as 'The Lady with the Fan'.

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. 177 or 190) and 1904 (cat. no. 2 or 8) as 'Lady with a Fan.'
• Pictures presented to the City of Dublin to form the Nucleus of a Gallery of Modern Art, also pictures lent by the executors of the late James Staats Forbes and others, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1904 (cat. no. 253) as 'The Lady with the Fan'.
• 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. 398) as 'Lady with Fan.'

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 254, pl. 237.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.131a-b.