The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Mrs Leyland in a flounced dress dates from 1873/1875.

Mrs Leyland in a flounced dress, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 548).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Mrs Leyland in a flounced dress, Freer Gallery of Art

Possibly Frances Leyland (1834-1910) or Maud Franklin (1857-1939).

Technique

Technique

Mrs Leyland in a flounced dress, Freer Gallery of Art

See discussion in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 548).

History

Provenance

• 1903: with William Stephen Marchant (1868-1925), London art 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.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 548).

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. 168) and 1904 (cat. no. 11) as 'A Lady'.
• 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. 397) as 'Female Figure in flounced dress'.

By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be lent to another venue.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 548) as 'Mrs Leyland in a flounced dress'.

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. 168) and 1904 (cat. no. 11) as 'A Lady'.
• 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. 397) as 'Female Figure in flounced dress'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 256, pl. 241.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.140a-b.