Portrait of Whistler

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, at top, in ink: "Portrait of James Whistler. Done & given to me by / Pellegrini at the Arts Club. Tuesday night. 11. Dec. / J.H. McC. 1877."

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions," June 20-September 27, 2015, Checklist para. 9, cat. 8.1 (ill.).

Publications

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, 2015), Checklist para. 9, cat. 8.1 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Carlo Pellegrini / Italian, worked in England, 1839-1889
Date: 1877
Medium: Brush and dark brown ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 10.5 × 11 cm (4 3/16 × 4 3/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
Accession no.: 1933.230

Provenance

J. H. McCarthy. Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago [his stamp (Lugt 2651), recto, lower right, in blue ink, by November 25, 1922 [Brewster collection records]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.