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Provenance
Sold by Kennedy Gallery, New York, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, November, 1916 [Chicago 1917, Mr. Brewster's annotated copy of his exh. cat.] [stamp (Lugt 2651 a-b), verso, lower left, in blue]; given to the Art Institute, February 1933.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Caxton Club, "Exhibition of Whistlerania from the Collection of Walter S. Brewster," April 28-June 2, 1917, cat. 34. Chicago, Albert Roullier Galleries, "Original Drawings by Old and Modern Masters," March 7-21, 1921, p. 5, cat. 45. Chicago, Arts Club, "An Exhibition of Portraits of Whistler and Some Original Drawings by Whistler," January 19-February 7, 1923, cat. 12.
Publications
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 132, no. 382 (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
- 1870/73
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on blue laid paper (discolored)
- Dimensions
- 8.6 × 12.9 cm (3 7/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
- Accession no.
- 1933.294
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