The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: Studies of a sleeping cat; v.: Indecipherable, by an unknown hand, date from about 1887. The sheet is mounted in an album with other drawings acquired by Whistler's son Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935).

r.: Studies of a sleeping cat, The Hunterian

The drawing on the verso may be by Hanson.

v: Anon., Indecipherable, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1154).

Images

Subject

Sitter

r.: Studies of a sleeping cat, The Hunterian

Sketches of the cat are seen in r.: Head of a lady and studies of a cat; v.: Two studies of a sleeping man, by an unknown hand m1153, r.: Studies of a sleeping cat; v.: Indecipherable, by an unknown hand m1154, and r.: Three studies of a cat; v.: Man's head, by an unknown hand m1155.

Technique

Technique

r.: Studies of a sleeping cat, The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1154).

Conservation History

This is one of several drawings that were bound into an album, possibly by the Redfern Gallery, London, ca 1950.

v: Anon., Indecipherable, The Hunterian

Several of the sheets in the book have rough (and in this case, incomprehensible) sketches by an unknown hand.

History

Provenance

• 1890s: acquired, probably from the artist, by his son, Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935).
• 1952: bought from the Redfern Gallery, London, by the Hunterian Art Gallery.

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1154) as 'r.: Studies of a sleeping cat; v.: Indecipherable, by an unknown hand'.

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.