Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002247Sketch after "Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder"
Inscriptions
Signed recto, upper right, in brown ink and recto, center left, in image, in brown ink: [artist's butterfly monogram]; inscribed recto, right, in brown ink: "À mon Eleve Pellegrini" (written sideways); inscribed verso, center, in brown ink: "Dear Mr Williams--" (written sideways)
Provenance
Given to Carlo Pellegrini (1838-1889), c. 1879. Possibly sold by Colnaghi, London, to Daniel H. Farr, Philadelphia, July 26, 1922 [MacDonald 1995]. Sold by Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, December 13, 1922 [invoice; stamp (Lugt 2651 a-b), recto, lower left, in blue]; given to the Art Institute, February 1933.
Exhibition history
Chicago, Arts Club, "Portraits of Whistler and some Original Drawings by Whistler, Loaned by Walter S. Brewster," January 19-February 7, 1923, cat. 13. The Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibitions, James McNeill Whistler - Paintings, Prints, Whistleriana, July 20-October 29, 1939, cat. 10. The Art Institute of Chicago, "James McNeill Whistler: Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Etchings, Lithographs," March 17-April 28, 1968, cat. 80 (ill.); Travelled to Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. Berlin, Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen, "James McNeill Whistler, (1834-1903)," October 1-November 24, 1969, p. 86, cat. 73. Providence, R.I., Brown University, "The Classical Spirit in American Portraiture," January-April, 1976, p. 108 (ill.). New York, The Frick Collection, "Whistler: Women and Fashion," April 22-July 13, 2003, p. 125, cat. 116 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions," June 20-September 27, 1015, Checklist para. 9, cat. 8.2 (ill.).
Publications
Andrew McLaren Young, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler (New Haven, 1980), pp. 117-18, under no. 203. Richard Dorment and Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler, exh. cat. (London, 1994), pp. 153-54. Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 261, no. 715 (ill.). Susan Grace Galassi, “Rearranging Rosa Corder,” Apollo 154:476 (October 2001), pp. 26, 34n15. Margaret F. MacDonald, "What is a Whistler?" James McNeill Whistler in Context: Essays from the Whistler Centenary Symposium, University of Glasgow, 2003, ed. Lee Glazer (Washington D.C., 2008), p. 12. 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 25, 2015), Checklist para. 9, cat. 8.2 (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
- c. 1879
- Medium
- Brush and brown wash, with pen and brown ink, on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 18 × 11.3 cm (7 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- wash
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
- Accession no.
- 1933.295
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