Date
Sketch of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder' dates from 1879.

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder', British Museum
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 714).
Images

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder', British Museum

Arrangement in Brown and Black: Miss Rosa Corder, The Frick Collection
Subject
Sitter

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder', British Museum
Rosa Frances Corder (1853-1893).
Technique
Composition

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder', British Museum

Arrangement in Brown and Black: Miss Rosa Corder, The Frick Collection
This is a drawing of Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder y203.
History
Provenance
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By 1908: 'Sketch for "Connie Gilchrist" ' was owned by Alan Summerly Cole (1846-1934), London, according to the Pennells;
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1914: bought with Study for 'Portrait of Miss Leyland' m0502 and Sketch of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder' m0714 from P. J. Sabin by Colnaghi, London dealers, 21 May 1914;
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1914: sold 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. 714) as Sketch of 'Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder' ".
- 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. 203).
Books on Whistler
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, repr. f.p. 259 as 'Study for "Connie Gilchrist" '.