
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001162The Artist in His Studio
Inscriptions
Artist insignia recto, right-bottom, on wall, in dark paint: [butterfly in cartouche].
Provenance
The artist, Paris, then London; consigned to Goupil Gallery, London, December 1896; sold to Douglas William Freshfield (1845–1934), London, by October 1897; with Brown & Phillips, London, sold to P. & D. Colnaghi and Obach, London, by 1911; partial share sold to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, August 24, 1911; probably consigned to Henry Reinhardt Galleries, New York and Chicago, 1911; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1912; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1912.
Exhibition history
Milwaukee Art Institute, An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 40, as In the Studio. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Oct. 31, 1933, cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibitions, July 20–Oct. 29, 1939, cat. 1. WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, Nineteenth Century American Masters, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no cat. IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–16, 1957, no. 2, as The Artist in the Studio. Art Institute of Chicago, Whistler's Mother: An American Icon Returns to Chicago, Mar. 4–May 21, 2017, no cat. London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, Feb. 23–May 23, 2022; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, July 3–Oct. 10, 2022, cat. (ill. pl. 38).
Publications
George William Eggers, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), 153, cat. 433 (ill.), as In the Studio, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w. Milwaukee Art Institute, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 40, as In the Studio. Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 11. Margaret F. MacDonald and Grischka Petri, "The Artist in His Studio (Whistler in His Studio)," The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné, University of Glasgow, accessed June 3, 2020, cat. YMSM 063 (ill.), as The Artist in His Studio (Whistler in His Studio), https://whistlerpaintings.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/display/?mid=y063. Jay A. Clarke and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. 8 (ill.), http://artic.edu/digitalwhistler. Carol Jacobi, ed., James McNeill Whistler, exh. cat. (Tate Enterprises, 2026), 14, 68, 71, 74, 156, 158, no cat. no. (ill.).
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
- 1865–66
- Medium
- Oil on paper mounted on panel
- Dimensions
- Board: 62 × 46.5 cm (24 7/16 × 18 5/16 in.); Overall: 63 × 47.3 cm (24 13/16 × 18 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- London
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Friends of American Art Collection
- Accession no.
- 1912.141
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