The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sketch of 'Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander' dates from May or June 1881. It was probably copied from Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander y129, which was then exhibited in the Grosvenor Gallery. It was published in Society, 11 June 1881.

Sketch of 'Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander', Society, 11 June 1881

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 845).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander, Tate Britain

Cicely Henrietta Alexander (1864-1932) is the subject; though she posed forHarmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander y129, not the drawing based on it.

Technique

Composition

Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander, Tate Britain

Sketch of 'Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander', Society, 11 June 1881

This is a sketch or memory sketch of the oil, Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander y129. It shows the same composition but exaggerates the shadows on the wall at upper right.

History

Provenance

Unknown.

Exhibitions

None known.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 845) as "Sketch of 'Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander' ".

Journals 1855-1905

• Society, London, 11 June 1881, repr.