The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Study of Maud Waller for 'Scherzo in Blue: The Blue Girl' dates from 1881/1882.

Study of Maud Waller for 'Scherzo in Blue: The Blue Girl', Private Collection

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 846).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Study of Maud Waller for 'Scherzo in Blue: The Blue Girl', Private Collection

Maud Mary Waller (1862-1942).

Technique

Composition

Study of Maud Waller for 'Scherzo in Blue: The Blue Girl', Private Collection

Scherzo in Blue: The Blue Girl, repr. Pennell 1911, f.p. 300

This is a study for or after Scherzo in Blue: The Blue Girl y226.

History

Provenance

• 1881/1882: probably given to Maud Mary Waller (1862-1942), who owned it until at least 1906.
• 1980: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1980 (lot 182) and bought by Dr and Mrs John E. Larkin, Jr.

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. 846) as "Study of Maud Waller for 'Scherzo in Blue: The Blue Girl' ".
• 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. 226).

Books on Whistler

• Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 305-06.