Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002937Gendarme
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in image, in black ink: "JW"; inscribed recto, lower center, in black ink: "Gendarme"
Provenance
The artist to John Ross Key [Chicago Times Herald 1896]. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 516) verso, lower right, in blue]; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.
Publications
Chicago Times Herald (Mar. 8, 1896), p. 30 (ill.). Nancy D. Pressly, "Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings," Metropolitan Museum Journal V (1972), p. 153, no. 74. Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 61-62, no. 201 (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
- 1854/55
- Medium
- Pen and black ink over graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 13.2 × 6.5 cm (5 1/4 × 2 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Accession no.
- 1927.5880
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