Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002938Lancer
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in image, in black ink: "JW"; inscribed recto, lower center, in black ink: "Lancer" (backwards "L")
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. 71. Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 61, no. 199 (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
- 14.1 × 7.3 cm (5 9/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Accession no.
- 1927.5881
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