The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Seated woman in Luxembourg Gardens dates from 1894. ¹

Seated woman in Luxembourg Gardens, The Hunterian

The drawing is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1401) dated '1893/5'.

Images

Subject

Site

Seated woman in Luxembourg Gardens, The Hunterian

One of the terraces in the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris.

Technique

Technique

Seated woman in Luxembourg Gardens, The Hunterian

This was intended as a lithograph but could not be transferred to stone or printed. The drawing is on the matt side of papier végétal lithographic transfer paper obtained from the Paris printers Lemercier & Cie, instead of on the gummed side of the paper, and so it could not be transferred to a lithographic stone for printing. There is a slight grain on the drawing that could have come from it being laid on a grained surface. The sheet has pinholes at the corners.

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1958: bequeathed by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

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. 1401) as 'Seated woman in Luxembourg Gardens'.
• Spink, Nesta R., Harriet K. Stratis, and Martha Tedeschi, The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, (gen. eds, Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi), 2 vols., Chicago, 1998, vol. 1, 'Untransferred Lithographic Drawings', (cat. no. X), pp. 508-10, repr. p. 510.

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/40760