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    Scene from Bohemian Life
    James McNeill Whistler. Scene from Bohemian Life, 1855/57. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000181

    Scene from Bohemian Life

    by James McNeill Whistler

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, lower right, in image, in ink: "J. Whistler"

    Provenance

    Given by John F. O'Connell, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "James McNeill Whistler," 1968, pp. 20, 98-99, cat. 75 (ill.); also Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Procter Institute, 1968. Berlin, Nationalgalerie, "James McNeill Whistler," 1969, cat. 62. Art Gallery of Ontario, "The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler," Nov. 24, 1984-Jan. 11, 1985. Paris, Grand Palais, "Bohèmes: De Léonard de Vinci à Picasso," Sept. 26, 2012- Jan. 14, 2013, p. 266, cat. 119 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions," June 20-Sept. 27, 2015, checklist para. 10, cat. 9.1 (ill.). Tate Britain, London, "James McNeill Whistler", May 21 - September 27, 2026, traveled to Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, October 16, 2026 - January 10, 2027, Washington, National Museum of Asian Art, February 6 - July 5, 2027, p. 13 (ill.), cat. by Carol Jacobi, et. al.

    Publications

    Nancy D. Pressly, "Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings," Metropolitan Museum Journal V (1972), fig. 33. Frances Spalding, Whistler (Oxford, 1979), pp. 9-12 (ill.). Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 65, no. 213 (ill.). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonne, ed. Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi (Chicago, 1998), p. 35. Daniel Sutherland, Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake (New Haven and London, 2014), p. 41. Meg Hausberg and Victoria Sancho Lobis. Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions. Department of Publishing of The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015 (https://publications.artic.edu/whistler/reader/linkedvisions; Accessed August 24, 2013), checklist para. 10, cat. 9.1 (ill.).

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    James McNeill Whistler / American, 1834-1903
    Date
    1855/57
    Medium
    Pen and black ink and black watercolor over graphite, with touches of white opaque paint (discolored), on tan laid paper laid down on cream board
    Dimensions
    22.4 × 24 cm (8 7/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of John F. O'Connell
    Accession no.
    1956.350

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