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AT-00004654Hussar (recto) Man with a Top Hat and Bandaged Head (verso)
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "12"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "yx (illegible)"
Provenance
John Ross Key, acquired directly from the artist [Chicago Times Herald 1896]; possibly sold to Keppel, New York, 1896 [MacDonald 1995]. Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 2972) verso, lower left, in red]; by descent to his wife, Mrs. Helen Lynde Aldis Lathrop (1849-1935); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1934.
Exhibition history
New York, Keppel, 1896. Probaby Art Institute of Chicago, "The Bryan Lathrop Collection of Etchings and Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler," March 12-May 1, 1917, cat. 379, as "Original Pen Drawing: Made by Whistler when a cadet at West Point."
Publications
Chicago Times Herald (March 8, 1896), p. 30 (ill.). Nancy D. Pressly, "Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings," Metropolitan Museum Journal V (1972), p. 153, no. 70. Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), pp. 60-61, no. 198 (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 (recto), and graphite (verso), on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 13.6 × 7.8 cm (5 3/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bryan Lathrop Collection
- Accession no.
- 1934.680
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