Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004648Portrait of Miss Maud Franklin
Inscriptions
Signed, recto, center right, in brown ink: [artist's butterfly monogram]
Provenance
Charles J. Hanson (the artist's son) [Witt Library archives]. Sold by E. Parsons, London, 1924 [Witt Library archives]. Sold by Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, December 20, 1928 [AIC archives, Collection records list]; given to the Art Institute, February 1933.
Exhibition history
New York, Knoedler and Company, "Notes, Harmonies, Nocturnes," November 30-December 27, 1984, cat. 15 (ill.), as "Maud Franklin". New York, The Frick Collection, "Whistler: Women and Fashion," April 22-July 13, 2003, p. 144, cat. 134 (ill.).
Publications
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 338-339, no. 896 (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
- 1883/1888
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 17.8 × 11.4 cm (7 1/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
- Accession no.
- 1933.298
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