The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

r.: Three studies of a cat; v.: Man's head, 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.: Three studies of a cat, The Hunterian

The drawing on the verso may be by Hanson.

v: Anon., Man's head, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1155).

Images

Subject

Sitter

r.: Three studies of a cat, The Hunterian

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

Technique

Technique

r.: Three studies of a cat, The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1155).

v: Anon., Man's head, The Hunterian

The sketch on the verson is not by Whistler.

Conservation History

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

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. 1155) as 'r.: Three studies of a cat; v.: Man's head, by an unknown hand'.

Websites

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