The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.1288
Mother and child

Mother and child

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890/1893
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.627
Medium: pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 10 3/4 x 7 1/8" (273 x 181 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: '35' in unknown hand

Date

Mother and child dates from 1890/1893.

Mother and child, Fogg Art Museum
Mother and child, Fogg Art Museum

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1288).

Images

Mother and child, Fogg Art Museum
Mother and child, Fogg Art Museum

Subject

Sitter

Mother and child, Fogg Art Museum
Mother and child, Fogg Art Museum

Probably Rose Amy Pettigrew (1872-1958) with her niece.

Technique

Technique

Mother and child, Fogg Art Museum
Mother and child, Fogg Art Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1288).

History

Provenance

See also MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1288).

Exhibitions

On 30 November 1895, Lucy Monroe in The Critic commented that Whistler had 'sent three pastels, delicate and exquisite in colour – suggestions, dreams, flashes of light from the wings of the butterfly as it flits by.'

Bibliography

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