Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000650Study of a Girl's Head and Shoulders
Inscriptions
Signed with the Butterfly
Provenance
Baroness Olga de Meyer, by 1905 [lent to London 1905]. Annie Swan Coburn (Mrs. Lewis Larned, 1856–1932), Chicago, by 1932; bequeathed to her friend Walter Stanton Brewster (1872–1954), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament and Letters Testamentary of Annie S. Coburn, Dated August 9, 1932, Article 3 (p), as Girl’s Head]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Exhibition history
London, International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers, The New Gallery, Regent Street, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late James McNeill Whistler, Feb. 22-Apr. 15, 1905, cat. 58, as Study of a Girl’s Head and Shoulders. Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibitions, July 20–Oct. 29, 1939, cat. 5. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Publications
Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, "Study of a Girl's Head and Shoulders," The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné, University of Glasgow, accessed June 3, 2020, https://whistlerpaintings.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/display/?mid=y486 (ill.). Jay A. Clarke and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. 36 (ill.), http://artic.edu/digitalwhistler.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)
- Date
- 1896–97
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 15.5 × 9.5 cm (6 1/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Modernism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Walter S. Brewster Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.212
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